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Changing Irrigation Systems and Management in the Harvey Irrigation Area

Final Report - February 2006

The Harvey Water Irrigation Area (HWIA) is Western Australia’s prime irrigated dairying area supplying Perth and the south west with more than 40 per cent of its milk. Irrigated agriculture commenced in Harvey with the establishment of a weir in 1916. Since that time, pastures have been watered through surface irrigation of paddocks which over time have been leveled and divided into irrigation bays. When this project was envisaged in 2001, there were no centre (more)...

NPIRD UPDATE - No.1 November 2001

The National Program for Irrigation R&D is the only national body to coordinate irrigation research activity in Australia. At present it is in its third 3-year funding phase, which is due to finish in June 2002. To get feedback from the irrigation industry about what shape irrigation research and development should take in the future and what the important issues will be, the program is running six workshops around Australia in October and November. Locations of these (more)...