Shadow Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Minister Deb Frecklington has congratulated the five finalists in the 2016 Queensland Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (QRIRDC) Rural Women’s Awards.
Mrs Frecklington said the finalists were fantastic representatives for women across the agricultural sector in Queensland.
“Wherever I travel around Queensland in my role as Shadow Agriculture Minister, I meet amazing women doing many projects that highlight the agricultural industry,” Ms Frecklington said.
“Their achievements often go unnoticed, but the RIRDC Award is a way we can acknowledge how important their contribution to the sector really is.
“The finalists chosen this year represent a very diverse group of agriculture industries and specialties and they do show that much can be achieved in various ways to support agriculture.
“Congratulations must go to Award Winner Emma Robinson of Charters Towers for her Beef Co-operative project.
“Her passion for her family’s beef enterprise and her drive to establish a Beef Co-Operative to provide leverage in the supply chain is a great example of putting a good idea into practice.
“I visited one of the finalists, Krista Watkins of Walkamin, when I was in the Tablelands region last year. In fact, my family uses her banana resistant starch product every day.
“Krista is an excellent example of a rural woman seeing the opportunity to value-add to her family’s business and create an innovative product.
“Thank-you to RIRDC for their ongoing support of Rural Women and I look wish Emma good luck for the national awards.”
Photo 2 – With the RIRDC Finalists at the official presentations in Brisbane on 24th February.
