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Objective
To facilitate agricultural machinery development ensuring more farmer inventions reach commercial production sooner.
Background
Many of Australia's agricultural inventions and new machinery concepts originate at the farm level. Unfortunately, most inventors are not interested in pursuing the idea beyond their own needs or do not have the time or expertise to develop a business plan to take the idea into commercial production. Thus many significant inventions are under-utilised and their benefits unrealised.
Research
Outcome
Many of the innovations were not deemed to be worth
developing by the commercial sector. With this in mind, the methodology
of the project was modified slightly to ensure the objective remained
a realistic one.
A preliminary assessment of the results indicate that some of the inventions evaluated have the ability to save Australian farmers considerable time and money. It is not possible to quantify this because of the imprecise nature of the work. We do know that about forty farmers have followed up and purchased detailed plans from Kondinin as a result of promoting various devices/equipment in Farming Ahead.
Implications
The final methodology adopted by Kondinin for this
project has led to a low cost method of collecting and transferring
information on new machinery and equipment. The project is near
to being self funding and the Kondinin Group intends to continue
with the project and fund any shortfall from consolidated revenue.
RIRDC Project No: KDI-13A
RESEARCHER: Mr Geoff Hamilton
ORGANISATION: Kondinin Group
61 Railway Parade MT LAWLEY WA 6050PHONE: 09 271 9344
FAX: 09 271 2730
Last updated: 10 October 1996
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