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The Hon David Littleproud MP
Minister for Agriculture and Northern Australia
A grant has been awarded to enhance traceability for Australian livestock exports.
This project is one of 14 to receive funding under Round 2 of the Australian Government’s Traceability Grants Program.
The Australian Livestock Export Corporation (LiveCorp) has received a $150,000 Australian Government grant to enhance health and welfare reporting for livestock exports.
Minister for Agriculture and Northern Australia, David Littleproud said the grant would modernise and standardise data collection within the sector.
LiveCorp will use this grant to further advance LIVEXCollect, the export industry’s data management system.
“By developing a smart device app prototype of LIVEXCollect, the industry will move towards a more digitised data collection method,” Minister Littleproud said.
Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management, the Hon. David Littleproud MP
Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries, the Hon. Jonno Duniam
A grant has been awarded to enhance traceability for Australian seafood.
This project is one of 14 to receive funding under Round 2 of the Australian Government’s Traceability Grants Program.
Seafood Industry Australia has been awarded a $267,000 Australian Government grant to strengthen consumer assurances in our premium seafood products.
Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management David Littleproud and Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries Jonathon Duniam said the investment would boost export opportunities through enhanced traceability.
“With this funding, Seafood Industry Australia will develop a closed loop ‘trust mark’; a visually recognisable label for packaging that can be scanned with a smartphone, like a QR code,” Minister Littleproud explained.
Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management
A grant has been awarded to a project to enhance traceability in the kangaroo meat industry.
This project is one of 14 to receive funding under Round 2 of the Australian Government’s Traceability Grants Program.
Western Game Processing has been awarded a $297,000 grant to create an app to enhance traceability for the kangaroo and wild game harvesting industry.
Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management David Littleproud said that underpinning the reliability and sustainability of game meat was becoming increasingly important.
“This grant will go towards creating an app and an internet dashboard to log real-time kangaroo harvesting data, from point of origin to processing,” Minister Littleproud said.