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Australian New Crops Web Site
Supported by the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation


The Australian New Crops Web Site is being revised.
The new Listing of Interesting Plants is available (click here).
The previous web site is also available during revision (click here).

A new crop is defined as a crop or crop product new to an area. 

New crop development is the adoption of a plant in a particular geographic place (for the purposes of production) so that it can be manipulated as a crop for the generation of some profitable commercial product (for the satisfaction of consumers) that has not previously been successfully produced from that plant in that region.

Do you wish to add information of your own?   See New Crops Blog


This website provides information about individual plant species and advice about the process of new crop commercialisation, all structured around …
 

The thirteen steps for commercialising new crops:

step1

step2

step3

step4

step5


The purpose…
 

The risk

Access to IP

Product marketability

Information

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step7

step8

step9

step10


The supply chain
 

The business plan

Management

Strategy

The review


which  leads to trials:

 

step11

step12

step13

 

 


Marketing trials
 


Processing trials
 


Production trials
 

 

Pages of special interest:

The listing of more than 68000 interesting plants
Those plants of most interest to visitors
The Do Our Own Marketing Research [DOOR Marketing] Short Course
The Australian New Crops Newsletter [1994-2000] Archive
The Original Australian New Crops Website


Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) Home Page

RIRDC New Plant Products
Home Page

RIRDC New Plant Products
Research Reports

RIRDC New Rural Industries
Handbook Contents


All information is included in good faith but this website does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy of any information on these pages, nor does the website accept responsibility for any loss arising from the use of this information.  Views and opinions are those of the authors themselves.  Every effort has been made to respect copyright owners' rights. 


Contact: Webmaster, Australian New Crops Website
australiannewcrops@gmail.com

Latest update 30 June 2008 by: ANCW
Previous website still available