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Specialist labs, glasshouses and an emergency management operational centre will be built at Murdoch University, courtesy of $320 million in state government funding.
WA agricultural researchers will explore emerging markets for bakery goods and noodles and rice made from oats in South East Asia after receiving $2 million in funding from the state government.
New research by a Perth-based national innovation centre has confirmed significant rainfall and climate changes in the state's agricultural regions for the past 15 years, and found these conditions will be the new normal.
