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The next generation of leaders within Australia’s cotton industry are encouraged to apply for a premier leadership program. Applications for the 2021 Australian Future Cotton Leaders Program opened today with 15 spaces available, funded by Cotton Australia and CRDC.

With one week to go until it closes, CRDC is encouraging all people who live and work in cotton communities to participate in the 2020 Regional Wellbeing Survey.

Today we're celebrating the International Day of Rural Women. Fast fact: The majority of people who work in Australia's key cotton organisations are women (60%), as are almost a quarter of cotton growers (23%).

CRDC and Cotton Australia are supporting a partnership between iconic Australian brands Country Road and Landcare Australia to improve biodiversity on cotton farms in the Namoi Valley of NSW.

Today is World Cotton Day: a day to celebrate the beautiful natural fibre that is cotton, and all who help grow it. We're pleased to play our part in this great industry through our world-leading cotton research, development and innovation.

CRDC has welcomed the appointment of six directors to the CRDC Board by the Hon. David Littleproud MP. Led by incumbent Chair Mr Richard Haire and CRDC’s Executive Director Dr Ian Taylor, the CRDC Board will comprise former directors Les Copeland and Rosemary Richards, who have been returned for a second term on the CRDC Board, and new directors Ross Burnett, Dr Gary Fitt, Dr Danielle Kennedy and Peta Slack-Smith.

The head of the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, departmental secretary Andrew Metcalfe AO, visited CRDC and the research hub of Narrabri yesterday.

CRDC research partner CSIRO is leading a new international research project to understand and manage fall armyworm (FAW), with support from CRDC.

While the Australian cotton industry has had a major focus on sustainability in 2020, so too has the global cotton industry - particularly ensuring that brands and retailers keen to source sustainable cotton can access credible, consistent and comparable ways to measure impact data across the various cotton sustainability standards.