The New South Wales Riverina will host a new dairy operation designed to showcase Israeli agricultural technology and provide a testing ground for Australian entrepreneurs and researchers.
Writing in Wednesday’s The Australian about the first ever visit by a serving Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull said:
“While in Australia, Prime Minister Netanyahu and I will … announce a declaration of intent to create a fully operational and commercial farm around Wagga Wagga. The new facilities will provide Australian farmers with an opportunity to benefit from world-leading Israeli dairy and agricultural technology.”
The farm, in Wagga Wagga, will be called Project Bridge, and be administrated by Sydney-based investment services firm Blue River Group.
In a statement, Blue River Group’s co-CEOs Grant Fuzi and Craig Shapiro said Project Bridge fit with their firm’s “ethos of developing projects that generate commercial returns but equally achieve positive and measurable social or environmental outcomes”.
Blue River Group purchased Riverina Fresh from Fonterra in 2016.
Read the full article by Clint Jasper at ABC News.