Accelerating adoption of integrated soil management practices in irrigated cotton and grain

Aims

• Increase the knowledge of growers and farm advisers
• Develop and implement locally relevant integrated soil management strategies that increase the capacity and motivation to adopt good soil management practices
• Develop, collate and reshape an extension program that provides a good foundation of soil heath principles and management
• Assist growers and advisers to develop and implement on-farm monitoring systems

Method

Collate important knowledge and improve access for growers and farm advisers to existing soil health information; link to other adoption activities including the Cotton BMP system; establish on-farm demonstration sites/case studies; conduct training programmes, provide regional updates and a regional soil symposium and develop new information sheets and tools for topics identified by industry.

Publications and Resources

None listed

Citation

Land & Water Australia. 2009. Accelerating adoption of integrated soil management practices in irrigated cotton and grain. [Online] (Updated May 27th, 2009)
Available at: http://lwa.gov.au/node/3434 [Accessed Wednesday 29th of February 2012 08:16:10 PM ].