Irrigation in Australia
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Irrigation is a widespread practice required in many areas of Australia, the driest inhabited continent, to supplement low rainfall with water from other sources to assist in growing crops and pasture
Centre pivot irrigation near Euberta in the Riverina region of New South Wales
A diesel irrigation pump in Mildura, Victoria.
Irrigation in New South Wales during the 1920s
Memorial marking the site of the first commercial rice crop in the Murray valley at Tullakool, New South Wales
Agriculture in Australia
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Although Australia is mostly arid, the nation is a major agricultural producer and exporter, with around 421,000 people employed in agriculture, forestry and fishing as of 2023. Agriculture's farm gat
Irrigation in Australia
…promotion of water trading and a commitment to restore at least 500 gigalitres of environmental flows to the Murray Darling Basin Water consumption by the agriculture industry was 12,780 gigalitres (2,810×109 imp gal; 3,380×109 US gal) in 2012-13, accounting for 65% of total water consumption in Australia during that period…
Murray Grey beef cows and calves
CSIRO scientists have developed new strains of barley.
Sunflower crop on the Darling Downs, Queensland
Potato farming in rural Victoria