New data provides tools for the future

A unique project seeking to quantify the value of the nursery industry’s contribution to the Australian economy has delivered statistics and a new data tool to help the industry better plan for the future. The Nursery Industry Statistics and Research 2016/17 (NY16004) project has, for the first time, shown that Australia’s thriving nursery and garden businesses produced an estimated $2.29 billion worth of green life in 2015-16.
The project surveyed more than 200 production nurseries and revealed that there are 23,000 people across the nation working in approximately 1,777 nursery and garden businesses. The project also produced a user friendly data tool to enable nursery operators to benchmark themselves against other businesses, so as to help them to boost their own profitability.

Download the Nursery Paper for March 2018