A collection of more than 600 full research project reports. The reports are available in PDF or MS Word 6 files for downloading, many with an accompnaying summary.  We will add regularly to the collection.

1. PROSPECTIVE NEW INDUSTRIES - New Plant Products || New Animal Products

2. EMERGING NEW INDUSTRIES - Agroforestry & Farm Forestry || Rare Natural (Animal) Fibres || Wildflowers & Native Plants || Essential Oils & Plant Extracts || Organic Produce ||  Deer || Tea Tree Oil || Asian Foods

3. ESTABLISHED INDUSTRIES -Chicken Meat || Egg Industry || Rice || Horses || Fodder Crops || Honeybee || Pasture Seeds

4. FUTURE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS - Global Competitiveness || Resilient Agricultural Systems || Human Capital, Communications & Information Systems

RIRDC Annual Operational Plan - the key reference to our business and our R&D references for the this financial year. Spells out our budget allocations, our accountability processes and how we do business. The 1998-1999 version is here.
 

Short Reports - new, free, specially edited, reader-friendly, comprehensive summaries of the full research reports.

Australia's New Rural Industries - a Handbook for Farmers and Investors
The full text of RIRDC's new 600-page book of detailed expert information
on nearly 100 of Australia's new rural industries

An online catalogue of some 500 research publications, with an easy to use online, secure order form using most cdredit cards - or you can email, fax or post the form to us.

RIRDC Annual Reports  1999-2000  ||   1998- 1999  ||  1997-1998  ||  1996-1997  ||  1995

RIRDC Strategic Plan to the year 2002

Five-year Industry R&D Plans for:

• Agroforestry
• Asian Foods
• Aust. Native Foods
• Chicken Meat
• Culinary Herb
• Deer
• Egg Industry
• Equine
• Essential Oils
• Farm Occupational Health & Safety
• Fodder Industry
• Honeybee
• Joint Venture Agroforestry Program
• Olive Industry
• Organic Produce
• New Animal Products
• Pasture Seeds
• Integrated Agri-Aquaculture Systems 1999-2004
• Rare Natural Animal Fibres
• Resilient Agricultural Systems
• Rice
• RIRDC Strategic Plan to the year 2002
• Tea Tree Oil Industry
• Wildflowers & Native Plants

• Shaping the Future: RIRDC's quarterly Corporate Newsletter
• Farm Forestry: newsletter of the Joint Venture Agroforestry Program
• Rural Australia Online - IT and the Internet in the rural sector: December 2000  ||  September 1997  ||  (September 1998)
• Tee Tree Oil Newsletter August 2001 ||  August 2000 ||  July 1999  ||  August 1997  ||  May 1996
• Access to Asian Foods (with the Dept of Natural Resources & Environment,Victoria)
• Access to Asian Vegetables (with the Dept of Natural Resources & Environment,Victoria)
• Essential Oils and Plant Extracts (special issue)
• Equine Research News (quarterly)
• Deer Products Research and Development Newsletter
• Organic Produce Newsletter
• Egg Industry "Focus on Research"

RIRDC-HBRDC honebee R&D newsletter 

2002-03 RESEARCH PRIORITIES- A working document for researchers and others interested in conducting rural industry research.