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Smart Specialisation team - Elena
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Smart Specialisation team - Elena

Elena Nauta joined the GS3 team at Food & Fibre Gippsland (F&FG) in December 2020 as an Industry Placement Program participant through Federation University, and has continued working on the Sustainable Emerging Commodities (Seaweed and Insect Farming) stream of GS3 as a Graduate Project Officer upon the completion of her placement in July 2021 and Bachelor of Food and Nutritional Science in December 2021.

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Optimising plant nutrition
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Optimising plant nutrition

With the extortionate price of fertiliser this season, growers are trying to use it as efficiently as possible. Plant nutrition must be tailored to each vegetable crop and growing conditions to ensure plants are healthy, productive and profitable.

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Farm Hygiene
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Farm Hygiene

Farm hygiene is the first step to helping growers protect their own business and the wider horticulture industry, while minimising production losses and unnecessary costs associated with pest outbreaks.

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