Publication Date
2006
Series Number
Horticulture Australia Project No. BS05001
Publisher
State of Western Australia
City
Perth
Abstract
Horticulture Australia Project No. BS05001 Annual report 2005/06
This is the first of three annual reports for the Horticulture Australia project BS05001 — ‘Facilitating the development of the strawberry industry in Western Australia’. This project is managed by the Strawberry Growers Association of WA Inc. and the work is being done in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and Food WA (DAFWA). The project has been funded by voluntary contributions from the W.A. Strawberry Producers Committee, Toolangi Strawberry Runner Growers Co-operative and DAFWA with matching funding from Horticulture Australia Ltd (HAL). The project has been funded for three years, 2005, 2006 and 2007, and this report is for work done in the first year of the project.
Two previous projects funded by grower levies matched by HAL have been completed since 1997 in W.A. Both these projects researched irrigation and nutrition practices for strawberries in W.A as well as other aspects of production. The last project to be completed (BS01006) examined mechanisms to bring Australian bred strawberry varieties into widespread commercial cultivation, with emphasis on the variety Kiewa, including development of a nutrition and irrigation ‘package’ to ensure high yield and good flavour.
A key finding from this project was that individual grower production practices were more important than the variety grown in determining crop yield.
Number of Pages
32
Keywords
Strawberry, Kiewa, Western Australia, New varieties, Post-harvest, Irrigation, Nutrition
Disciplines
Agribusiness | Agricultural Science | Agronomy and Crop Sciences | Climate | Environmental Monitoring | Food Processing | Fresh Water Studies | Horticulture | Hydrology | Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods | Marketing | Operations and Supply Chain Management | Plant Breeding and Genetics | Sustainability | Water Resource Management
Recommended Citation
Phillips, D,
and
Reid, A.
(2006), Facilitating the development of the strawberry industry in Western Australia. State of Western Australia, Perth. Report Horticulture Australia Project No. BS05001.
https://library.dpird.wa.gov.au/hc_researchrpts/29
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