Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP140100690
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Transition from phosphate mining to an economically, environmentally and socially viable agricultural industry on Christmas Island. The main industry on Christmas Island is mining of rock phosphate, but supplies will run out between 2025 and 2030. Consequently, there is an urgent and compelling need to develop other economic industries to support the resident island population by the time mining ceases. This project aims to utilise the project team’s extensive knowledge on legumes, nitrogen fixing bacteria and plant growth promoting bacteria to establish the basis for a viable agricultural industry on the Island. The project aims to provide: reliable and sustainable food sources for the local population; potential food export opportunities to southeast Asia; environmental benefits from the improvement of soils; and economic development of allied agricultural industries.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 07-2014
End Date: 05-2019
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $341,291.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Microbial Ecology | Agricultural Land Management | Crop and Pasture Nutrition | Crop and Pasture Production
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Soybeans |
