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Key Tasmanian agriculture stakeholders will meet in Launceston this week to collaborate and showcase work underway to strengthen climate resilience in our communities.
Around 50 stakeholders are expected to attend the TAS Farm Innovation Hub Partner Forum at Peppers Silo in Launceston tomorrow.
Hub Director Sandra Knowles said the forum was an opportunity to showcase the achievements of hub partners to support drought resilience throughout Tasmania.
“The event is a great way for our partners to come together and hear about the diverse activities underway around Tasmania supported by the hub and connect with like-minded people in the agricultural sector,” Ms Knowles said.
“The hub prides itself on effective collaboration so this is a key event to enable those conversations to flow and for our partners to share valuable lessons and insights for the future.”
The forum will showcase projects which offer practical actions to support drought resilience on-farm including agricultural innovation, natural capital and on-farm tactics supporting healthy soils.
There will also be discussions on building industry resilience including presentations on agritourism, community engagement and learning and the successful ENABLE Leadership Program for the ag industry.
“A key aim of the TAS Farm Innovation Hub is to help farmers access critical information and drive innovation in their business to ensure financial, social and environmental resilience to drought and climate variability,” Ms Knowles said.
“We know there is a lot of useful information out there to assist our farmers plan for the future and our role is to allow easy access to this knowledge through strengthening relationships in Tasmania’s agriculture sector.”
The TAS hub has 22 projects around Tasmania in collaboration with more than 30 partner organisations. Projects include integrating trees into farm plans to improve resilience to drought; investigating soil health sensing technologies; and supporting drought and climate resilience in Aboriginal farm enterprises.
The hub has delivered a number of key activities recently including regional workshops looking at feed availability and budgeting to assess risk and inform stocking rates and presentations on localised weather forecasting to help farmers plan for climate variability.
The hub also recently released the Tasmanian Agriculture Technology Guide in partnership with Beanstalk AgTech. The guide showcases 100 technologies across four key agricultural industries in Tasmania and was developed with funding from AgriFutures Australia.
The TAS Farm Innovation Hub is one of eight hubs nationally funded through the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund. The hub is based at the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) at the University of Tasmania.
Media contact: Melissa Lewarn, melissa.lewarn@utas.edu.au or 0427 354 058.
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Communications Office University of Tasmania
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