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Services

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Contract Research

  • Product plant growth testing

    • Conducted within indoor environmentally controlled growth environments, with a focus on hydroponics 

    • Plant growth efficacy testing of agricultural/ horticultural goods e.g. fertilisers, additives, substrates, foliar sprays etc.

    • Plant safety testing

    • A range of analytical methods for plant samples including elemental analysis, metabolite analysis etc. 

  • Product formulation design and development

    • Custom solid or liquid fertiliser blends – to meet target NPK 

    • Solubility, pH, EC to meet targets 

    • Development of manufacturing protocol including Lean considerations

    • SDS production

    • Provision of product label content

    • Compliance of formulations to agricultural codes e.g. heavy metal, and pesticide restrictions

    • Testing of novel formulations through plant growth testing (see above)

  • Plant species

    • Cannabis sativa (industrial hemp)

    • Food crops e.g. capsicum, tomato, lettuce, basil

    • Ornamental crops e.g. chrysanthemum

    • Others upon request

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Research Consultancy

  • Hemp authority application assistance

  • APVMA product registration assistance

  • Laboratory and plant growth physical containment (PC) and biosecurity containment (BC) certification application assistance

  • NZ fertiliser import class determination assistance (approval for import to NZ)

  • Farm/ Plant growth research design 

  • Data analysis – including analysis of experiment/ trial results, statistical modelling etc.

    • Such as in preparation for manuscript writing

  • Organic-input certification application assistance

3

Internships

  • Industry placements

    • Development and application of plant growth and laboratory skills 

  • Student projects 

    • Host and/ or co-supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate level 

    • Plant growth, laboratory analysis, environmental science, data science 

    • CBRG has hosted more than 70 students since 2017

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