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Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-171
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

CRDC: FRDC Contribution: Growing a digital future - understanding digital capability in Australian agriculture

In an effort to respond to a rapidly changing agricultural environment and boost the industry's competitiveness entering a new age of digital farming, Cotton RDC and a group of Rural Research and Development Corporations (including FRDC) have come together to fund the Agriculture workforce digital...
ORGANISATION:
Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-249
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

RRD4P: FRDC contribution: Precision to Decision Agriculture (Rural Research and Development for Profit Programme 2016)

The aim of this project was to benchmark Australian producers’ needs, perceived risks and benefits, and expectations associated with digital agriculture and big data context. Such understanding will inform strategies aimed at 1) better utilising agricultural data to...
ORGANISATION:
Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)
People
Industry
Industry
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-016
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Australian Fisheries and Aquaculture Statistics 2021

The Australian Fisheries and Aquaculture Statistics report contains comprehensive information on commercial fishing and aquaculture in Australia covering fisheries production, trade data and consumption and employment statistics, with data up to and including 2020−21. The report is aimed at...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ABARES
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Exploring semantic search and linking technologies for application on GrowAG platform

Project number: 2024-049
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Principal Investigator: Alex Bundock
Organisation: AgriFutures Australia
Project start/end date: 28 Feb 2025 - 30 Sep 2025
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Need

AgriFutures growᴬᴳ⋅ is the platform for Australian and global agrifood innovation. Explore research, technology, and commercialisation opportunities in one place. Connect with a diverse ecosystem including researchers, investors, and startups and discover funding avenues, list projects, and engage with over 400 organisations.

Agricultural research is vital for ensuring food security, sustainable farming practices, and rural development. AgriFutures growAG. involves collaboration between the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) and Australia’s 15 Research & Development Corporations (RDCs), collating details on the vast rural RDC investment landscape. Collation of project details on growᴬᴳ is currently a manual, keyword-based tagging system that suffers from limitations:
- Limited Semantic Understanding: Keywords often fail to capture the nuanced relationships between projects, leading to fragmented information retrieval.
- Scalability Issues: Manual tagging is time-consuming and prone to inconsistencies, hindering efficient data management as the database grows.
- Lack of Interoperability: The current system lacks the ability to seamlessly integrate with other agricultural datasets and knowledge bases.
This project proposes to develop an AI-driven solution for semantically linking agricultural research projects, enabling more accurate and comprehensive project navigation and knowledge discovery. By leveraging Natural Language Processing (NLP) and knowledge graph technologies, we aim to transform the current keyword-based system into a dynamic and interconnected knowledge repository.

Objectives

1. Provide seamless ingestion of RDC data onto the platform including automation, providing projectsummaries and tagging.
2. Facilitate advanced semantic search and exploration through the integration of AI and data visualisation techniques.
3. Provide a value add for the ecosystem, partners, and visitors by being able to query the underlying growAG data set and better understand potential opportunities and trends.