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Cotton Australia gets new officer

Claudia Vicary is the new graduate policy officer for Cotton Australia. She will contribute to the development of the organisation’s policy positions that protect and advance the interests of cotton growers. She has extensive professional and personal experience in agriculture. She has skills in cotton and horticultural integrated pest management, field research and international agricultural development.

 Claudia Vicary will work closely with Cotton Australia’s team of policy and advocacy staff and the broader team to advance issues important to cotton growers. Cotton Australia is the peak body for Australia's cotton growing industry and aims to foster a sustainable Australian cotton industry. There are more than 1,200 cotton farms in Australia. In an average year, Australia’s cotton growers produce enough cotton to clothe 500 million people. The major buyers of Australian cotton are China, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, Bangladesh and Japan.

Cotton is one of Australia’s largest rural export earners and helps underpin the viability of more than 152 rural communities. Cotton makes up 30 to 60 per cent of the gross value of the total agricultural production in Australian regions where it is grown. The cotton industry in Australia employs 15 times as many people as grazing does. Australian irrigated lint yields are now the highest of any major cotton producing country in the world.

 
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