Review agriculture s potential role as a provider of pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and industrial products. 4.3 Human Capital, Communications and Information Systems Assess the attitudinal factors that have an impact on farm business performance to establish how training and learning methodologies can be improved. Support a new Rural Women s Award. Publish a second edition of the Farmer s Guide to the Internet . Undertake a study of older farmers and retirement including the development, pilot and evaluation of a retirement planning education program for farmers.
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This Plan sets aside funds to continue our rolling program of ex post project evaluations. This follows the Program 3 evaluations done in 1998 99. The results of these evaluations will be presented in the Annual Report for that period. National Farmers Federation Australian Chicken Meat Federation Incorporated Australian Egg Industry Association Deer Industry Association of Australia Ricegrowers Association of Australia Australian Honey Bee Industry Council Australian Horse Industry Council. In the case of the National Farmers Federation, consultations were on the total Plan and, in the case of the others, on those parts of the Plan that related directly to them.