Welcome to the September 2021 edition of CRDC under the microscope - CRDC's e-news for cotton researchers.
Applications for 2022-23 investment: EOIs now available
CRDC's Expression of Interest (EOI) guidelines, for researchers interested in applying for funding under the 2022-23 investment round, are now available. Researchers are now invited to respond to the EOI guidelines via the five step procurement process outlined here. FRPs will be accepted until 5pm, Wednesday 13 October 2021.
Grant applications for the 2022 Science and Innovation Awards for Young People in Agriculture - supported by CRDC - are currently open. If you're 18-35, this is your chance to apply for up to $22,000 to fund your innovative research project that will benefit Australia's cotton industry (like 2021 recipient Demi Gamble, pictured, and 2020 recipient Dinesh Kafle).
CRDC has been partnering with Regrow since 2017, when we supported Anastasia through a series of startup workshops allowing her to incubate and grow the Flurosat project.
Since then, she's gone on to secure millions in seed investment to further develop the state-of-the-art remote sensing technology that allows farmers to measure crop health 'from the air'.
Anastasia said at the time: “We are extremely grateful to CRDC and X-Lab for connecting us with industry – growers, independent and commercial agronomists – to get advice and run our ideas/questions about the prioritisation of the product features and money value those features have to the grower or agronomists. CRDC and X-Lab have been invaluable in connecting us with government officials and other ag organisations which has led us to where we are today."
We congratulate Anastasia and her team on this latest achievement!
Cotton research on twitter: top tweets from our tweeps!
We love to see researchers, growers and partners in the cotton industry tag us on twitter, so we can join in the conversation and share the insights, queries, achievements and work. Tag us at @CottonResearch (and our friends at CottonInfo at @CottonInfoAust) and we can further share your work, event or research. Here are some recent tweets from our researchers and research partners:
2022-23 investment decision: key dates
COB, 13 October 2021 - Deadline for FRPs to be submitted to CRDC
October 2021 - CRDC R&D team reviews FRPs
November-December 2021 - Cotton Australia panels review FRPs
March 2022 - Recommendations made to CRDC Board
April 2022 - CRDC Board decision
April 2022 - Preliminary advice given to applicant
May 2022 - Approval of Parliamentary Budget Statement by Minister
May-June 2022 - Final advice to applicant; contracts sent
1 July 2022 - Commencement of research contract and funding support (contract will outline deadlines for progress reports and final reports)