Section 2 - Sugar Research and Development Corporation

Collaborative Partnership for
Farming and Fishing Health
and Safety
The SRDC will continue to participate in the
Collaborative Partnership for Farming and Fishing
Health and Safety managed by the RIRDC.
RIRDC Rural Women’s Award
The RIRDC Rural Women’s Award is Australia’s
pre-eminent award to recognise and encourage
rural women’s contribution to primary industries,
resource development and rural Australia.
While the award acknowledges past achievements,
it is focused on the future and provides rural
women with fi nancial and practical support to
implement their visions for primary industries
and rural Australia, and to enhance their leadership
and representative capacities. SRDC will continue
to encourage women from the sugarcane industry
to nominate for the award.
The Australian Rural Leadership
Foundation – Training Rural
Australians in Leadership course
sponsorship
The Australian Rural Leadership Foundation
was established in 1992 to respond to emerging
challenges for rural, regional and remote Australia.
It creates a network of leaders with compassion
and commitment, strategic thinking and
negotiating skills, and the foresight to infl uence
communities, industries, businesses and policy
makers.
The SRDC provides a scholarship for an emerging
leader from the sugarcane sugar industry to attend
the Training Rural Australians In Leadership course
– an eight-day residential leadership program.
Management solutions
to optimise performance of
new farming systems in southern
cane lands
This project led by the University of Queensland’s
Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation is
jointly funded with the GRDC and focuses on
the integration of grain legumes, particularly
soybeans and peanuts, into the sugarcane
farming system of southern cane lands.
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