An overhaul of the government technology behind exports from Australia’s $85 billion agriculture sector is in jeopardy after poor planning, slow implementation and resource constraints throttled the project, according to an outside audit.
The Australian National Audit Office on Tuesday tabled its report on the $350 million digital reform of agricultural export systems that began under the former government but has struggled to deliver.
In four years and with $166 million spent, only half the tranche one deliverables of the Taking Farmers to Market program have been delivered or partly delivered, despite a target date of almost one year ago.
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