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Pork CRC to receive funding for next eight years

The Pork Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has been awarded funding for a further eight years by the federal government.

The Pork CRC will receive $20 million in funds over the next eight years to help develop a sustainable pork industry.

The Centre’s 40 participants, including Australian Pork Farms, RSPCA and Rivalea, have also committed to providing $18 million in cash and $94 million in-kind over eight years commencing 1 July next year.

The Pork CRC Chairman John Keniry said: "We are also very grateful to the Pork CRC’s 40 participants, all of whom I thank for their enthusiasm and support.”

The Centre will focus on four research programs for the future:

1. Confinement free sow and piglet management
2. New generation health management and antibiotic reduction
3. Healthy pork consumption
4. Carbon-conscious inputs and outputs

"The Pork CRC will help ensure Australian pork is produced conserving energy and water resources, minimising greenhouse gas emissions and maintaining efficiency and cost of production at a level that promotes investment, growth and sustainability,” Mr Keniry said.
 
Australia’s pork industry, which has an annual farm-gate value of $1 billion, contributes $3 billion annually to the national economy and generates 8000 jobs.
 

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