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Welcome to Primary Industries Innovation Centre

Welcome to the Primary Industries Innovation Centre incorporating the National Centre for Rural Greenhouse Gas Research - A joint venture partnership between the University of New England and Industry & Investment NSW.

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Unison Intentional Innovation Community WorkshopsEmpowering individulas to harness direct collective action for development of ideas into useful outcomes. Participats will be intorduced to the concept of IIC and invited to contribute to and participate in the identification and realisation of a strategy for innovation intended to; empower and reward individual creativity and ingenuity, harness and direct local expertise into collective action, create useful things and improve and ensure the ongoing prosperity of the region.
Postgraduate Research Opportunities - Biochar for Enhancing Poultry Litter and Reducing Greenhouse Gas EmissionsA PhD scholarship is available for a project to investigate the use of different biochars as a component of poultry litter. Impacts on N capture/cycling, odour, bird health, and agronomic value of the biochar-enhanced spent litter will be assessed.
Visiting the National Centre for Rural Greenhouse Gas ResearchWiam Diani is a student from the French university, SupAgro Montpellier. She is enrolled there in a Masters in International Agriculture and is completing her training and thesis in Armidale in association with Roger Hegarty and John Nolan.
PIIC’s first PhD graduation – a family celebrationJohn Wilkie, PIIC’s first PhD graduate, was awarded his degree at the UNE graduation ceremony on Saturday 17th April. John’s thesis was titled “Interactions between the vegetative growth, flowering and yield of macadamia (Macadamia integrifolia, M. integrifolia x M. tetraphilla), in a canopy management context”.
Pasta Abstract makes Shortlist in International Best Student Research Paper CompetitionPIIC PhD student Nisha Aravind with her abstract, “Effect of Dietary Fibre enrichment in Spaghetti - An Enzymatic and Structural Study”, has been chosen as one of six finalists who will advance to the next round of the 2010 American Association of Cereal Chemists (AACC) International Best Student Research Paper Competition.
Agricultural life-skills to link school, home and community in CambodiaBob Martin’s illustrated children’s book “Jorani and the Green Vegetable Bugs” has been published in Khmer language by ACIAR to teach children and teachers in rural areas of Cambodia about integrated pest management (IPM) in upland crops and the positive impacts on the environment and human health.