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The Grains Research & Development
Corporation is one of the world's leading grains research organisations,
responsible for planning, investing and overseeing research and
development, delivering improvements in production, sustainability and
profitability across the Australian grains industry. GRDC is a statutory
corporation, founded in 1990 under the
Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development Act 1989
(PIERD Act), it is subject to accountability and reporting obligations
set out in the
Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997 (CAC Act). The
GRDC’s portfolio department is
Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Australia (AFFA).
The GRDC's mission is to invest in research
and development for the greatest benefit to its stakeholders -
graingrowers and the Commonwealth. The Corporation links innovative
research with industry needs. The GRDC's vision is for a profitable,
internationally competitive and ecologically sustainable grains
industry.
The GRDC's research portfolio covers 25
leviable crops* spanning temperate and tropical cereals, oilseeds and
pulses, worth over $7 billion a year in farm production, alone. The GRDC
is a statutory corporation, operating as a research investment body in
partnership with growers and Government.
Funding is provided through a levy on
graingrowers. This is determined each year by the grains industry's peak
body, the Grains Council of Australia (GCA). The Commonwealth Government
matches this funding, up to an agreed ceiling.
The GRDC derives its functions, powers
and objects from the PIERD Act. This enabling legislation provides the
foundation for the GRDC's accountability to the Australian grains
industry and to the Australian Government for securing the greatest
possible returns.
* Wheat
Coarse Grains : barley, oats, sorghum, maize, triticale,
millets/panicums, cereal rye, canary seed
Pulses : lupins, field peas, chickpeas, faba beans, vetch, peanuts, mung
beans, navy beans, pigeon peas, cowpeas, lentils
Oilseeds : canola, sunflower, soybean, safflower, linseed . |
