Accelerated innovation, readiness and adoption

Why this matters

Queensland's primary industries are entering a defining era, driven by rapid AgTech advancements, climate shifts and rising biosecurity threats. These challenges demand bold action and faster innovation cycles to remain competitive and sustainable.

Climate variability is impacting our sector, changing what we can grow and catch, where and how, and challenging our profitability. More extreme weather and shifting rainfall patterns require resilient infrastructure and adaptive farming, fishing and forestry systems.

At the same time, evolving biosecurity risks demand faster detection, smarter prevention and rapid response capability.

Queensland is already home to world-class R&D, AgTech, trials and demonstration assets. Now is the time to scale these innovations, pre- and post-farm gate, into commercial solutions that fisheries, forestry and agricultural enterprises can adopt with confidence and ease.

It is time for us to maximise profitability and value across the entire supply chain through a circular economy approach.

AgTech is more than a productivity tool — it's a high-growth sector in its own right, delivering solutions across agriculture, fisheries, forestry and value-adding. New technological innovations and practices can also help address labour force shortages through increased automation whilst driving efficiencies and increased productivity.

With strategic investment and coordination, Queensland can lead the world in innovation, export smart solutions, and future-proof our food and fibre systems

Goal

Primary industries are leaders in the merging of innovation, new technologies and practices, unlocking industry-wide transformation that anticipates and responds to local and global disruptors.

Success looks like

Enterprises have transformed their production systems by:

• adopting and integrating advanced technologies and digital solutions
• reducing innovation-to-market cycles to deliver measurable economic and environmental gains and address local and global challenges.

Initiatives

There are many opportunities to thrive across our state, regions and agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors.

Key initiatives to harness opportunities and drive action include:

• Accelerate AgTech pathways to adoption
• Accelerate innovation and productivity growth
• Accelerate innovation and technology adoption across the seafood value chain
• Enhance decision-making using intelligence and data
• Establish a modern science-based forest practices system, that meets all regulatory and community expectations, and provides the best return for the public
• Grow and amplify the AgTech sector
• Identify research and development opportunities to improve yields, utilisation and product development across the entire supply chain
• Improve silviculture and agronomic practices to enable better decision-making and enhanced productivity and sustainability
• Increase manufacturing capability, capacity and competitiveness across the supply chain
• Increase primary industry resilience
• Increase resilience to natural hazards and disasters
• Partner for strong marine and aquatic biosecurity
• Strengthen the Queensland Biosecurity System
• Support innovation and adoption of new and emerging technologies and products for the forestry and timber industry
• Unlock productivity and resilience through fish habitat enhancement and restoration