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Scientific research informs decision-making from the primary producer to the marketplace to the consumer.

At any given moment NSW DPI is undertaking more than 900 science projects in collaboration with Federal and State departments, cooperative research centres and industry groups.

In all its research outcomes NSW DPI aims to balance the needs of primary producers and long-term natural resource management.

With science capacity integrated into business units across the department, scientific activity is grouped in these broad research areas:

 

Agriculture NSW 

Carbon chamber

Agricultural Resources

  • Soil and Organics Research
  • Climate in Primary Industries
  • Water in Primary Industries
 

Cropping Systems

  • Farming Systems (North)
  • Farming Systems (South)
  • Forest and Rangeland Ecosystems

grapes

Horticulture

  • Viticulture Research
  • Horticulture Research

 

sheep

Livestock Systems

  • Animal Production Research
  • Animal Genetics Research 

 

 

 

Fisheries NSW

aquatic scene

Fisheries Research

  • Aquatic Ecosystems
  • Wild Fisheries
  • Aquaculture Research
 

Biosecurity NSW

Thrisp

Biosecurity Research

  • Forest Health Research
  • Animal Health Research
  • Vertebrate Pest
  • Weeds Research
  • Plant Pathology
  • Plant Entomology

 

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