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Major progress in research facilitation
Groot vordering met navorsingsfasilitering
STRATEGIC
FOCUS AREAS
STRATEGIESE
FOKUSAREAS
HIGHLIGHTS
HOOGTEPUNTE
Grain research co-ordination and policy
Consortiums and multi-stakeholder
partnerships
Conservation agriculture
Graannavorsingkoördinering en -beleid
Konsortiums en multibelanghebbende
vennootskappe
Bewaringslandbou
Progress was made with the development of
high throughput phenotyping platform and was
presented at the International Plant Phenotyping
Symposium (IPPS) hosted by the Australian
Plant Phenomics Facility in Adelaide, Australia.
Grain SA’s projects in collaboration with DST
was presented at the first ever BIO Africa
Convention held in Durban.
A surveillance programme, initiated by
Grain SA, to identify the occurrence and
spread of fall armyworm (
Spodoptera
frugiperda
) in South Africa.
The Argentinian CA collaboration project was
renewed for the 2017/2018 season.
A greater urgency emerged to scale out CA
to more producers, much faster, because of
serious environmental threats and the dire
economic situation of many grain producers.
Vordering is met die ontwikkeling van ’n hoëdeur
vloei-fenotiperingsplatform gemaak en dit is
aangebied by die internasionale plantfenotipe
ringsimposium (International Plant Phenotyping
Symposium, IPPS) wat deur die Australian Plant
Phenomics Facility in Adelaide, Australië gehou is.
Graan SA se projekte in samewerking met DWT is
aangebied by die eerste BIO Afrika-konvensie ooit,
wat in Durban gehou is.
’n Moniteringsprogram wat deur Graan SA geïnisieer
is om die voorkoms en verspreiding van die herfs-
kommandowurm (
Spodoptera frugiperda
) in Suid-
Afrika te identifiseer.
Die Argentynse BL-samewerkingsprojek is vir die
2017/2018-seisoen hernu.
As gevolg van ernstige omgewingsbedreigings en die
swak ekonomiese situasie van talle graanprodusente
is ’n groter dringendheid geïdentifiseer om BL baie
vinniger onder meer produsente bekend te stel.
Consortiums and multi-stakeholder
partnerships
Grain SA’s main research priority focus areas are crop im-
provement, crop protection, biosecurity, climate change and
conservation agriculture. Grain SA’s Research and Policy Centre’s
primary objective is to establish research consortia that drive innovation
to enhance the productivity, profitability and sustainability of South
African grain and oilseed producers and benefit the industry and
the wider community. Feedback and progress of the consortia are
provided below.
Crop improvement: Wheat breeding
South Africa’s area planted to wheat decreased at an alarming rate
over the last 30 years, and therefore the Department of Science
and Technology (DST) and Grain SA committed themselves to the
development of a platform to address this challenge as it impacts
Konsortiums en multibelanghebbende
vennootskappe
Graan SA se vernaamste prioriteitsfokusareas vir navorsing is
gewasverbetering, gewasbeskerming, biosekuriteit, klimaats-
verandering en bewaringslandbou. Graan SA se Graannavorsing en
Beleidsentrum se primêre doelwit is om navorsingskonsortiums te
vestig wat innovering gebruik om die produktiwiteit, winsgewendheid
en volhoubaarheid van Suid-Afrikaanse graan- en oliesaadprodusente
te verbeter en die bedryf en wyer gemeenskap tot voordeel te strek.
Terugvoer en vordering van die konsortiums word hieronder verskaf.
Gewasverbetering: Koringteling
Suid-Afrika se oppervlak wat met koring beplant is, het die afgelope
30 jaar teen ’n ontstellende tempo gekrimp, en die Departement van
Wetenskap en Tegnologie (DWT) en Graan SA het hulleself derhalwe
verbind tot die ontwikkeling van ’n platform om hierdie uitdaging uit die
Grain Research and
Policy Centre
Graannavorsing en
Beleidsentrum