b'A look at seed industry developments around the globe.A new $230 million agSTATUS AUSTRALIA with DPIRD including: able to perform a series of facility will be built inThe Grains Research and $24M investment overadditional operations such as Development Corporationfour years into AEGIC archiving a communication, Australia, India celebrates(GRDC) has welcomed $20M investment oversaving it as a draft, retrieving their first carbon neutralthe Western Australianfive years for the WA Farminga history of communications, Governments announcementSystems project etc. In addition, when not farm and wheat importsof a new $320M world-classSource: GRDC connected to the User Area, still on the decline due toagricultural facility, whichusers will receive an email will house the Departmentalert for the first new com-the Russian invasion ofof Primary Industries andmunication received in the STATUS EUUkraine. Regional DevelopmentWith the aim to ease com- Communication Centre.(DPIRD), Australian Exportmunications with its users,Source: CPVOGrains Innovation Centrethe CPVO launched its new (AEGIC) and Intergrain uponCommunication Centre online its completion in 2027. platform (e-Comm) offer- STATUS INDIAThe announcementing a more intuitive layoutCentury-old state seed farm was made by WA Premierwhich allows for an enhancedon Thuruth Island near Aluva Mark McGowan and WAmonitoring of all new mes- has been declared the coun-Agriculture and Food Ministersages and documents relatedtrys first carbon-neutral farm Alannah MacTiernan atto users files. on Dec. 10 by Chief Minister Murdoch Universitys GrainsDealing with procedures(CM) Pinarayi Vijayan. Research Precinct, which wasrequiring exchange of mes- In the past decade, the built with the support fromsages and documents canstate of Kerala has reg-GRDC\'s infrastructure invest- be quite demanding for allistered many firsts to its ment. parties involved, and it needsname. Vijayan declared the GRDC Chair John Woodsto be supported by an effec- state seed farm located in says that the planned pre- tive communication platform.Aluva as the country\'s first cinct would be an exceptionalUntil today, sending a mes- carbon-neutral seed farm. outcome for agriculture insage about your CPVRs to theThe state seed farm under WA, bringing together theCPVO was only possible bythe Agricultural Department States key agriculture andsubmitting a document in theachieved carbon-neutral grains agencies alongsidesection Documents of yourstatus after significantly world-class biosecurity andUser Area, where exchangesreducing its carbon emissions, research facilities. do not happen in real-time.contributing towards a green Woods says he lookedWith the new Communicationenvironment. The seed farm forward to continuingCentre, users will be able tohas made 43 tons of carbon GRDCs close workingexchange live messages andemission in the last year, but relationship with DPIRD,documents with the CPVO,its overall procurement was AEGIC and Intergrain withmeaning that communicating213 tons, the CM said.the mutual goal of deliveringand sharing documentationWhile making the innovative research, develop- with CPVO staff will becomeannouncement, Vijayan said, ment and extension for theeasier and faster "Carbon-neutral farms will States grain growers. In practice, users will bebe set up in all 140 Assembly GRDC has a long his- able to read and reply directlyconstituencies, and efforts tory of investing in RD&E into communications sent byhave already been launched WA and we look forward tothe CPVO. Such commu- to make 13 farms in Kerala building on that through ournications will be availablecarbon neutral. Carbon-ongoing involvement with keyin the new Communicationneutral agricultural meth-research partners. Centre platform through anods would be implemented GRDC has made severaleasy-to-search and acces- through women\'s groups, and major joint announcementssible inbox. Users will also besuch interventions would be 64/ SEEDWORLD.COMFEBRUARY 2023'