Pome, Citrus and Stonefruit
APC Pome, Citrus & Stone fruit Producers' Committee
The APC Pome, Citrus and Stonefruit Producers' Committee, was established in 1994 to provide services to Western Australian pome, citrus and stone fruit producers.
The Committee covers all Western Australian producers of apples, pears, nashi, citrus and stone fruits, including cherries.
Pome Sub-Committee (Pomewest)
You can find out more at the Pomewest website.
Members Name | Current Term | Contact information
Jason Jarvis Chairperson | 2023 - 2026 | twinpack@bigpond.com 0429 311 363
Mario Casotti | 2022 - 2025 |
Sam Licciardello | 2022 - 2025 |
Harvey Giblett | 2022 - 2025 |
Executive Officer Nardia Stacy | nardia@pomewest.net.au | 0411 138 103
All terms are three years commencing in June (unless otherwise stated)
Functions
The Committee is enabled to provide all services (a) to (m) listed in Functions of an APC Producers’ Committee
Each year the Committee calls for Expressions of Interest in relation to suggestions on how the Committee should direct its activities (within the confines of the APC Service Functions) for the coming financial year.
Should you have any suggestions or feedback please contact the Committee Chairperson, Jason Jarvis on: twinpack@bigpond.com
Services undertaken by the Committee
The Committee funds such initiatives as: technology, medfly and various other research projects and industry training. Projects undertaken by the committee are guided by the current strategic plan.
The proposed Services to be provided 2022/2023 includes the following activities:
Technology Officer Salary/Operating/Study Tour
Maturity Standard Testing (TQAS)
Medfly Surveillance Trapping Network (Ashmere Consulting)
Systems Approach Market access (HIAL)
Producing sustainable cropload (DPIRD)
Platform (TBT)
Building Horticulture Business Capacity (DPIRD/VegWA)
Promotion & Publicity (Fresh Finesse/WA Farm Direct/MMooney)
WAFD Pome Event Mar 2023
Event Sponsorships- Donnybrook, Southern Forests, HOIG,
Codling Moth (DPIRD)
APC admin charge
A report on Committee activities can be found in the APC Annual Report.
Regular updates are provided via the weekly email newsletters and via the quarterly WAGrower magazine. Both the newsletter and the WAGrower magazine are emailed or posted out to pome FFS payers. If you are not receiving these communications please contact Nardia so that your contact details can be checked and updated if necessary.
Pome Fruits FFS Charge
— Apples, Pears and Nashi
as from 1 January 2015
The Pome general fee for service charge rate is:-
All Pome (fresh fruit) $0.015 per kilogram
All Pome (processing) $0.005 per kilogram
The Pome biosecurity fee for service charge rate is:-
All Pome (fresh fruit) $0.002 per kilogram
All Pome (processing) $0.001 per kilogram
Further information on the Pome Sub-committee can be found at Pomewest (this is the name by which Sub-committee is known)
Citrus Sub-Committee (WA Citrus)
You can find out more at the WA Citrus Website.
Members Name | Current Term | Contact information
Joseph Ling Chairperson | 2022 - 2025 | joseph@agrifresh.com.au 0417 828 238
Cliff Winfield | 2022 - 2025 |
Shane Kay | 2023 - 2026 |
Daniel Ying | 2023 - 2026 |
Graham Tanner | 2023 - 2026 |
Andrew Pergoliti | 2024 - 2026 |
Sue Maslen | 2025 - 2027 |
Damien Guthrey | 2025 - 2027 |
Industry Development Officer
Bronwyn Walsh | | industrymanager@wacitrus.com.au 0400 873 875All terms are three years commencing in June (unless otherwise stated)
Functions
The Committee is enabled to provide all services (a) to (m) listed in Functions of an APC Producers’ Committee
Each year the Committee calls for Expressions of Interest in relation to suggestions on how the Committee should direct its activities (within the confines of the APC Service Functions) for the coming financial year.
Should you have any suggestions or feedback, please contact the Committee Chairperson, Joseph Ling on: joseph@agrifresh.com.au.
Services undertaken by the Committee
The Committee funds such initiatives as the general account projects and biosecurity account projects, and various other research projects and industry training.
The proposed services to be provided in 2022/2023 include the following activities:
Leadership and Comms (WA Citrus)
Promotions & Publicity (Fresh Finesse)
Review of Strategic Plan
External R&D projects
TQAS maturity Testing
Administrative Officer
Biosecurity projects
APC admin charge
A report on Committee activities can be found in the APC Annual Report.
Citrus FFS Charge
— Oranges, Lemons, Mandarins, Grapefruit, other citrus
as from 1 September 2021
The citrus general fee for service charge rate is:-
All citrus (fresh fruit) excluding exported fruit$0.005 per kilogram
All citrus (processing fruit) excluding exported fruit $0.010 per kilogram
All citrus (fresh or processing) exported to outside Australia$0.0027 per kilogram
The citrus biosecurity fee for service charge rate is:-
All citrus (fresh or processing or export)$0.0009 per kilogram
Stonefruit Sub-Committee
Name | Current Term | Contact information
Anthony Caccetta Chairperson | 2021 - 2024 | antc83@hotmail.com 0438 844 456
Mark Scott | 2024 - 2026 |
Michael Padula | 2022 - 2025 |
Sebastian Fiolo | 2022 - 2025 |
Michael Fernie | 2022 - 2025 |
Wilma Byl | 2023 - 2026 |
Value Chain Facilitator for the WA Stone Fruit Industry
Ross Anile | | ross.anile@perthnrm.comStonefruit email | |admin@wastonefruit.com.au
All terms are three years commencing in June (unless otherwise stated)
For Feedback: New Strategic Plan
Following extensive engagement with growers, stakeholders and the Committee, a new draft strategic plan 2024 to 2028 has been developed. The plan, together with a proposed roadmap was presented to growers in November 2024 for feedback. The Roadmap would see a change in FFS rates, and growers are invited to review the Strategy and Roadmap and submit any feedback to ross.anile@perthNRM.com before 15 December 2024.
Functions
The Committee is enabled to provide all services (a) to (m) listed in Functions of an APC Producers’ Committee
Each year the Committee calls for Expressions of Interest in relation to suggestions on how the Committee should direct its activities (within the confines of the APC Service Functions) for the coming financial year.
Should you have any suggestions or feedback please contact the Committee Chairperson, Danny DiMarco on: dimarconson@gmail.com.
Services undertaken by the Committee
The Committee funds such initiatives as: horticulture connection growers, and various other research projects and industry training.
The proposed Services to be provided 2022/2023 includes the following activities:
AGM Field Walk
Maturity Testing (DPIRD/TQAS)
Project Support officer
Promotion & Publicity
Fresh Finesse Instore demos
Horticulture Connections Growers
Horticulture Biosecurity Liasion Officer
Value chain facilitator (Perth NRM)
Grower/Retail/Wholesale Education Merchandiser
APC admin charge
A report on Committee activities can be found in the APC Annual Report.
Stonefruit FFS Charge
— Apricots, Cherries, Loquats, Nectarines, Peaches & Plums
as from 1 November 2009
All stone fruit $0.015 per kilogram
All stone fruit (processing) remains at $0.006 per kilogram
Further information on the Stone Fruit Sub-committee or WA Stone Fruit can be found at WAstonefruit
Should you have any suggestions or feedback, please contact the Chairman of the relevant sub-committee.
A review of Committee activities is located in the APC Annual Report.
Fee for Service (FFS)
Compliance - The collection of Fee for Service for the WA pome, citrus and stone fruit industries is regulated by the Agricultural Produce (Horticultural Industry) Regulations 2001.