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2005年10月 18日 星期二
打印本页 New research boost for pork industry
AUSTRALIA - Reducing soaring feed prices will be a focus of a new research centre for Australia's pork industry.The Pork Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), based at the University of Adelaide's Roseworthy campus, aims to pump millions of dollars into the industry through research including better use of feed grains and genetic improvements.
The centre was launched in Adelaide by federal Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran. CRC Chief executive Dr Roger Campbell said the gaps in the industry's efficiency and competitiveness needed to be identified more clearly.
"I am excited to be part of what will be a revitalisation of the Australian pork industry and see potential for marked improvements in efficiencies and cost reductions," Dr Campbell said.
"We are seriously disadvantaged in Australia by the cost and supply of grain, so we are going to look at ways of reducing grain usage, developing grains better suited to pigs, enhancing the availability of nutrients from grains and developing animals and systems that do not require high levels of feed.
Source: seven.com.au
