Impact Assessment of Investment in Processing RD&E Projects

Pork Quality
31 August 2021
Completed Project
Project goal

Examine the economic, environmental, and social impacts of APL’s investment in processing related Product Integrity RD&E Projects.

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Project summary

As part of its Statutory Funding Agreement with the Commonwealth Government, Australian Pork Ltd (APL) is required to prepare and maintain an Evaluation Framework in line with APL’s Research, Development and Extension (RD&E) Program Framework. In 2021, AgTrans Research was contracted to examine the economic, environmental, and social impacts of APL’s investment in processing related Product Integrity RD&E Projects.

Value for producers:

  • Confirms that APL processing project investment has delivered positive benefits to the Australian pig industry and other industry stakeholders.

Recommendations:

  • Based on two analyses, the benefit cost ratio for the total investment in all 10 projects could lie somewhere between 4.8 and 6.8 to 1.
  • These results suggest that APL processing project investment has delivered positive benefits to the Australian pig industry and other industry stakeholders.
  • As only three of seven impacts were able to be valued monetarily within the scope of this assessment, these results likely underestimate APL processing investment performance.
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