Australian Agrifood Data Exchange (OzAg Data Exchange): Deliver An Interconnected Data Highway For Australia's AgriFood Value Chain - Proof Of Concept
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$344,500.00
Summary
Although the use of data and analytics is becoming more widespread across agricultural industries and institutions, the sector is held back by the lack of a consolidated data platform that combines multiple data sets from multiple data sources in real time. Other technology and data challenges compromising the strength of the Australian agriculture industry include:
Businesses often need to access multiple data systems/datasets which are stored across various platforms and function ....Although the use of data and analytics is becoming more widespread across agricultural industries and institutions, the sector is held back by the lack of a consolidated data platform that combines multiple data sets from multiple data sources in real time. Other technology and data challenges compromising the strength of the Australian agriculture industry include:
Businesses often need to access multiple data systems/datasets which are stored across various platforms and functions and are not well integrated. Aggregating and reconciling these datasets require manual intervention, is rife with errors/duplication and require significant effort to ensure uptake across the business in order to lead to tangible analytics outcomes. This interoperability challenge is commonplace across the industry today.
Data is not shared between the various stakeholders within the industry at times leading to analysis been taken place with incomplete datasets and other times for duplication of efforts with varying results. Data sharing/collaborating culture which would be backed by an established data governance framework including protocols/policies for data access, privacy, definition and standards, would uplift the industry analytical capabilities.
Challenges in understanding where to prioritise efforts to best support the industry. With significant opportunities for data-driven use cases across the value chain, defining the prioritisation of funding and efforts to build capabilities is a critical challenge for industry bodies and governments. The OzAg DX could enable consolidated, integrated and standardised data, to help reduce the labour intensive effort of collecting and analysing data to make better informed prioritisation decisions on deployment of limited support resources and capabilities.
A slow take up of digital technologies is slowing agricultural productivity growth. As Australia looks to achieve the target of $100 billion farm gate output by 2030, digital agriculture is expected to contribute up to an additional $20 billion annually to the gross value of agricultural production. Objectives: 1. Exchange data efficiently on agreed terms with trusted service providers or other interested parties such as government and researchers 2. Enable Australia's agrifood sector to access and take full advantage of the huge amounts of data that is being generated and efficiently transfer their data across the value chain 3. Reduce costly inefficiencies, poor collaboration, wasteful use of critical managerial time and loss of opportunities caused by disparate, siloed and proprietary data systems Read moreRead less
An Investigation Of The Trace Elements Present In Bronze Whaler Sharks And Rock Lobsters
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Summary
Objectives: 1. Isolate mercury & selenium present in the flesh of bronze whaler sharks; 2. explore the nature & concentration of metallic trace elements in the offal of rock lobsters, particularly those present in the hepatopancreas of the western rock lobster
Discussion Papers On Seafood Traceability And Labelling
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$33,000.00
Summary
FRDC have identified this topic is gaining momentum across the food industry including seafood, and this proposal will support FRDC to be prepared for future discussions and potential industry changes and support. Objectives: 1. What is traceability 2. Understand the current Australian legal requirements for seafood traceability and labelling 3. Understand current seafood traceability methods available including any in development 4. Traceability impacts on produ ....FRDC have identified this topic is gaining momentum across the food industry including seafood, and this proposal will support FRDC to be prepared for future discussions and potential industry changes and support. Objectives: 1. What is traceability 2. Understand the current Australian legal requirements for seafood traceability and labelling 3. Understand current seafood traceability methods available including any in development 4. Traceability impacts on product categories 5. Identify improvement areas Read moreRead less
Seafood Country Of Origin Labelling (CoOL) – NSW Food Service Industry Trial
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$3,900.00
Summary
There are a number of proposals to extend compulsory seafood Country of Origin Labelling (CoOL), as currently exists in retail, to food service businesses. A number of stakeholder meetings have been held nationally and by individual states, to consider the proposal. There is a compulsory system in the Northern Territory and the NSW Government has agreed to consider the proposal for a CoOL scheme for seafood as part of its Fisheries Reform Package. The Restaurant & Catering Industry Associa ....There are a number of proposals to extend compulsory seafood Country of Origin Labelling (CoOL), as currently exists in retail, to food service businesses. A number of stakeholder meetings have been held nationally and by individual states, to consider the proposal. There is a compulsory system in the Northern Territory and the NSW Government has agreed to consider the proposal for a CoOL scheme for seafood as part of its Fisheries Reform Package. The Restaurant & Catering Industry Association considers that a concerted informational and educative campaign to increase the take-up of CoOL amongst food service businesses in the hospitality sector will deliver sustained results. Other stakeholders are not convinced that a voluntary system will work so have agreed to trial a campaign in NSW food service businesses during 2018 to evaluate the impact of such an initiative (intended and unintended). This project workshops the ToR of such a trial
Objectives: 1. To develop Request for Tender documentation to ensure an increase in the purchase and sales of seafood and increase consumer awareness of the origin of seafood in food service through an informative education campaign targeting food service businesses in NSW. Read moreRead less
Development Of Biological Tagging Techniques For Penaeid Prawns
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$303,749.00
Summary
Objectives: 1. To determine the potential of gene transfer as a method of tagging prawns. 2. To determine whether transposable elements exist in the prawn genome 3. To establish a method of genetic transformation in penaeid prawns 4. To determine whether trace elements accumulated by juvenile prawns remain distinguishable in offshore adult populations 5. To determine the uptake and residence time of selected trace elements in prawn tissues 6. To determine which ....Objectives: 1. To determine the potential of gene transfer as a method of tagging prawns. 2. To determine whether transposable elements exist in the prawn genome 3. To establish a method of genetic transformation in penaeid prawns 4. To determine whether trace elements accumulated by juvenile prawns remain distinguishable in offshore adult populations 5. To determine the uptake and residence time of selected trace elements in prawn tissues 6. To determine which body tissues of prawns best conserve the selected trace elements Read moreRead less
Workshops On Analytical Techniques For Trace Concentrations Of Heavy Metals In Marine Tissues
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Summary
Objectives: 1. Determine the most accurate, reliable and practicable techniques of measuring trace amounts of zinc, cadmium, lead, copper, arsenic, selenium and chromium in fish and other marine tissue
E-fish - An Integrated Data Capture And Sharing Project
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$223,747.89
Summary
Advances in data capture has resulted in the proliferation in the types of reporting platforms available for the fishing industry to report to the Government and third parties resulting in duplication of processes, collection of multiple data sets, and a requirement for fishing boats to operate multiple systems to meet their reporting requirements. It is estimated for licensing systems alone around four times the necessary spend to create a national system has been expended or will be expended w ....Advances in data capture has resulted in the proliferation in the types of reporting platforms available for the fishing industry to report to the Government and third parties resulting in duplication of processes, collection of multiple data sets, and a requirement for fishing boats to operate multiple systems to meet their reporting requirements. It is estimated for licensing systems alone around four times the necessary spend to create a national system has been expended or will be expended within the next few years. Coupled with an increased drive for fishers to participate in traceability schemes a new data architecture is required to enable access to data that links currently disparate data sets and in particular creating a unique event linking identifier.
To support the changing needs there is a need to develop a design for a fisheries data architecture which: • allows for the linkage or integration of currently disparate data • allows for multiple methods of data transfer • is adaptable to changing needs allowing for future expansion and changes to data sets and collection methodology • supports sharing of data with third parties in real time.
While single integrated box solutions initially appear an attractive solution for solving this problem, they limit the ability to adapt quickly to changing needs and reduce long term market competition. There is a need to develop a data architecture that allows for future adaptation and provides industry flexibility to choose equipment they employ on their boats. The key aspect is linking a wide range of data, collected from different sources to a single event and sharing this data quickly across different platforms and for different purposes.
Consistent with the recommendation from “accelerating precision agriculture to decision agriculture” report it offers an opportunity to demonstrate benefits of digital initiatives.
Objectives: 1. Better meet the demands of the Australian community and fisheries stakeholders to readily access and use fisheries data. 2. Provide opportunities for the digital transformation of fisheries data. 3. Increase the opportunities for businesses to utilise fisheries data through enhancing its availability and power. 4. Increase the cost effectiveness and efficiency of fisheries data capture and management. 5. Better meet the demands of traceability schemes to aid market access for Australian seafood businesses. 6. Provide greater access and linkages of fishery data without compromising data confidentiality and privacy obligations Read moreRead less
The ability to distinguish hatchery-produced scallops from wild recruits is necessary to determine the survival and optimal size and time of deployment to the seabed in the scallop reseeding project FRDC 2002/48. Furthermore, to enable rigorous evaluation of commercial marine reseeding ventures, a means of identifying the released scallops upon recapture is required. Successful labelling of juvenile scallops will also allow researchers to estimate survival and dispersal of reseeded juveniles. ....The ability to distinguish hatchery-produced scallops from wild recruits is necessary to determine the survival and optimal size and time of deployment to the seabed in the scallop reseeding project FRDC 2002/48. Furthermore, to enable rigorous evaluation of commercial marine reseeding ventures, a means of identifying the released scallops upon recapture is required. Successful labelling of juvenile scallops will also allow researchers to estimate survival and dispersal of reseeded juveniles.
An identifying mark provides far greater sensitivity and accuracy than typical statistical-based assessment. There are a number of reported methods to discern hatchery produced animals but the methods we have chosen to test are relatively inexpensive and easy to apply to animals no greater than 4mm shell length (commercial release size). An alternative marking method, molecular analysis of scallop tissue, was evaluated and qualified opinions sought, but rejected on the basis of high expense and processing time compared with testing cheaper alternatives with demonstrated utility in other species.
Objectives: 1. To develop a method to mark hatchery reared saucer scallops to distinguish them from animals derived from wild populations. Read moreRead less
Development Of Biological Tagging Techniques For Penaeid Prawns
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$75,734.00
Summary
Objectives: 1. To determine the potential of gene transfer as a method of tagging prawns 2. To determine whether trace element accumulation by prawns is specific to particular drainage basins 3. To determine the residence time of trace elements accumulated by prawns