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Central Highlands Agribusiness Forum
The organisation was established in 2004, after recommendations from a regional capability audit of the Victorian Central Highlands region, The Forum’s activities seek to include all regional shires, commodity and interest groups associated in agribusiness development. The geographical area covered includes the City of Ballarat, and the Shires of Hepburn, Macedon Ranges, Moorabool and Pyrenees. Board members to bring to CHAF a diverse range of skills and experience in the agribusiness sector, government and industry.
Snapshot of the Region
The Central Highlands region’s agribusiness sector is typified by increasingly diverse agricultural production, with a growth rate of 25% from 1997 to 2001 and a reduction in land use for agricultural purposes in the same period from 548,004 hectares to 522,429 hectares.
It is the 4th largest industry by value, following manufacturing, retail and construction.
Benefits to the Agribusiness Sector
All areas of agribusiness will benefit from having a Strategic Plan and Marketing and Business Plan to assist agricultural production, service and value adding enterprises in the region to achieve business growth and profitability.
Agribusiness and government within the Central Highlands region will be able to use the Strategic Plan to support their projects and business development plans. It will identify the opportunities for the sector to work together to further develop the region’s agricultural sector.
The agribusiness sector is operating in a period of substantial and dynamic change. The continued growth of this sector will depend on how this change is addressed.
Log in as a Member (its free) and take advantage of our website. Members are able to add events to our calendar, join the Forum, vote on issues of importance, link your web site to ours to increase your exposure, tell us what is important to you and many other features as they develop.
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