Eranda Namal Jayasuriya, PhD student: Imaging analysis for IoT sensor networks
Sri-Lanka-born, Western Sydney University-based Eranda Namal Jayasuriya is one of two PhD students attached to the CRC’s ‘IoT for indoor cropping’ project.
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CRC report makes cover of Crops journal
Western Sydney University post-doc researcher Sachin Chavan’s CRC report ‘Protected cropping: Current technologies and target crops’ is the cover feature for the June 2022 issue of peer-reviewed journal Crops.
CRC indoor-cropping projects feature on ABC Landline
Western Sydney University scientists are trialling LLEAF P/L’s new ‘light-spectra-shifting’ agricultural films on horticultural crops in a trio of CRC projects that are the focus of a recent ABC Landline segment.
Meet Zhonghua Chen: plant physiology, genomics and protected cropping expert
Western Sydney University’s Prof. Zhonghua Chen is an expert in plant physiology, plant breeding, biophysics and agronomy – and an academic mentor to Australia’s next generation of crop scientists.
Agri Expo 2022, Dubai
This two-day, Dubai-based global conference-expo highlighting innovations in agriculture and horticulture aims to brings academia and industry together. Western Sydney University’s protected-cropping experts will be contributing a video on the university’s high-tech experimental glasshouse.
Luminescent Light Emitting Agricultural Film (LLEAF): The next evolution of protected cropping to increase crop productivity sustainably – Dr Alex Soeriyadi
LLEAF P/L CEO Dr Alex Soeriyadi is working with Hort Innovation, DPI and Western Sydney University scientists to trial his prototype agricultural films on glasshouse-grown blueberry and lettuce crops. Here, he explains how it all works.
Is the future of farming indoors?
This short film depicts the work of protected cropping experts at Western Sydney University’s Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment supporting India’s efforts to develop sustainable future food production solutions.
WSU commits to future jobs, skills and research growth with state-of-the-art Agri-Tech Hub vision launch
Western Sydney University has launched its vision for an Agri-Tech Hub: a six-hectare, high-tech greenhouse complex for commercial, teaching and research work that will help create new jobs and opportunities for high-tech horticulture in the region.
WSU Agri-Tech Hub Vision Launch
Join Western Sydney University leaders for the ‘vision launch’ of the university’s new Agri-Tech Hub, a planned six-hectare, state-of-the-art commercial greenhouse facility and co-location space for industry and research.
Ripe for donation: 58-plus tonnes of trial fruit and veg nets NVPCC research team AIH award
Researchers from the National Vegetable Protected Cropping Centre at Western Sydney University have netted an Award of Merit from the Australian Institute for Horticulture for donating their glasshouse-grown produce to those in need.