Climate smart technologies for dragon fruit and ginger production futures. This project aims to develop and apply climate-smart technologies for growing ginger and dragon fruit in southeast Queensland

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Climate smart technologies for dragon fruit and ginger production futures. This project aims to develop and apply climate-smart technologies for growing ginger and dragon fruit in southeast Queensland. The project will generate and apply a novel and superfunctional platform of biochar and soil microbial diversity technologies for enhancing water and nitrogen use efficiency as well as yield and quality of ginger and dragon fruit while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to intensifying climate change. Expected outcomes include enhanced win-win strategic partnerships and step-change biochar- and biodiversity-based platform technologies for supercharging ginger and dragon fruit production, resulting in increased crop yields, improved biodiversity, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and enhanced employments. . Scheme: Linkage Projects. Field: 3008 - Horticultural Production. Lead: Prof Zhihong Xu