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Healthy Soils: Soil is a National Asset - Corporate Brochure

The Healthy Soils for Sustainable Farms Programme is a wide-ranging, $5 million programme that covers a variety of agricultural sectors across almost all the states of Australia. The current range of agricultural industries involved in the Healthy Soils for Sustainable Farms Programme includes: • Grain and crops • Cotton • Sheep and wool • Sugar • Vegetables • Organics The scale of the projects supported (more)...

3 - Continuing the research

3 - Continuing the research from Land and Water Australia on Vimeo. (more)...

2 - Australian Soils

2 - Australian Soils from Land and Water Australia on Vimeo.

1 - The importance of managing soil for productivity

1 - The importance of managing soil for productivity from Land and Water Australia on (more)...

Development of new biocontrol agents for Parkinsonia

Parkinsonia is a Weed of National Significance due to its impacts on the environment and agricultural production. Biological control of this weed is considered essential for its long term management. Classical biological control consists of introducing…

Economic assessment of selected investments of the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation (Phase1)

The National Program for Sustainable Irrigation (NPSI) required cost-benefit analyses to be undertaken on a number of its research investments from Phase 1 of the Program. Phase 1 of NPSI ran from July 2002 to June 2007. Eleven investments from Phase 1 were identified by NPSI as having potential for analysis, and these 11 investments were scanned by Agtrans using six criteria to further determine their suitability (more)...

Implications of water reforms for the national economy

FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS in the 1880s by individual farmers along inland rivers and, in particular, the efforts of the Chaffey brothers at Renmark and Mildura in 1887, the irrigation industries in Australia have expanded to where they now use three quarters of all water used, have a combined area of about 2.6 million hectares under irrigation and produce agricultural outputs worth over $9 billion. Irrigation industries are an (more)...

National Program for Irrigation R&D Research Strategy Discussion Paper

A February 1993 meeting of the Chief Executives from the Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation (LWRRCD), Rural Water Corporation of Victoria, NSW Department of Water Resources and Queensland Department of Primary Industries agreed to financially support the national program for irrigation R&D for three years.

Implications of water reforms for the national economy

THIS REPORT HAS been prepared by the CIE as part of the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation. The financial assistance provided by the Program through Land and Water Australia is gratefully acknowledged. Many people have contributed to this study. Murray Chapman, Program Coordinator for the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation deserves praise for his enthusiastic support and assistance (more)...

Irrigation Update No.8 Newsletter of the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation

In this issue

• Evaporation also happens at night
• Northern Australia Irrigation Futures
• Decisions, decisions - new Irrigation Insights book available soon
• New irrigation CD Available now: latest hydro-geophysic