Queensland, Australia
March 11, 2014
Peak Queensland production horticulture body, Growcom is offering the public the chance to win two prizes worth $250 each as part of celebrations for the first birthday of Infopest Free Online (www.infopest.com.au) this month.
Chief Executive Officer Alex Livingstone said that Infopest is the comprehensive agricultural and veterinary chemicals database managed and maintained by Growcom as a service to agriculture throughout Australia.
“On 11 March last year, the database was launched free online and to date more than 2100 users have registered to take advantage of the service’s convenience, easy searchability and comprehensiveness,” Mr Livingstone said.
“A team at Growcom each week updates the registration and minor permit data provided by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA). This puts Infopest at the leading edge of agricultural chemicals, minor permit and materials safety data sheet information – and it’s all free for users.”
To celebrate the first 12 months of service, Growcom is offering new users who register during the month of March on the website www.infopest.com.au the chance to win a prize of a $250 BCF gift voucher, redeemable in any BCF store. A second $250 BCF voucher will be the prize drawn from the pool of those social media users who like Infopest’s page on Facebook and comment on the status update about our first birthday.
“To date, agricultural services retailer, Elders, is the company with the largest number of registered users. The Queensland Government is only narrowly in second place with the second most registered individual users within an organisation. The gap is closing with the NSW Government chalking up a close third,” he said.
“We ask users to identify with a specific industry category and based on their responses, there are about 10 times more primary producers (crops) than veterinary related users with 46 per cent of Australian users located in Queensland and 23 per cent in New South Wales. We look forward to competition from the other states in the months ahead.
“Most people have happily embraced the Infopest online version to search for agricultural chemicals solutions for pest problems in crops or animals. However, we take on board all comments from users about the Infopest product and look forward to incorporating their suggestions into future enhancements of the system.”
Mr Livingstone thanked Infopest’s two major sponsors who have enabled the organisation to bring the Infopest product to agriculture free online.
“Leading agricultural chemicals company, Crop Care Australasia, and agricultural insurance company, WFI, have both got behind the product this year and we thank them for recognising the value of this service to all Australian agriculture,” Mr Livingstone said.
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