Eliza Berlage

About 80 per cent of the crop is grown in India, but Australian farmers have now invested in its growth as its popularity rises due to its health benefits and culinary uses.

Australia has about 50 cultivators of medicinal cannabis but only a handful are grown outdoors in the sun.

Small and big retailers alike are looking to adopt new recyclable packaging for mandarins, saying it would avoid the use of 11,700 kilograms of plastic in one year.

Wine industry representatives say they will fight for financial assistance after the federal budget left them disappointed.

Wine grape growers in the region supplying more than 10 per cent of Australia’s crush have rejected an offer to sell their red wine contracts for $4,000 per hectare to multinational company Accolade Wines.

While pushed as a sustainable source for clothing, hemp producers say a complex web of rules and regulations — including going through the office of drug control — make it hard for them to meet demands from the fashion industry.

A nutritionist says purple sweet potatoes have higher antioxidants than the more popular gold variety and are a cost-effective food for families.

With some grape growers facing another year of prices below the cost of production, some are taking advantage of the global demand for olive oil.

Australian researchers and chef Duncan Welgemoed are advocating for the pest species to be used to feed into health and beauty products in a multi-billion-dollar industry. 

New cherry varieties could yield promising results, better tasting cherries for inland farmers