Facilitated Action Learning Groups to Support Profitable Irrigated Farming Systems in the Northern and Southern Regions
Tender ID: 374283
Tender Details
Tender Description
This investment will establish eight facilitated Action Learning Groups (ALGs) in the southern Murray Darling Basin (SMDB), South-East SA and SA/Victorian Mallee. Each group will have a minimum 10 growers and advisers. The ALGs will use a participatory learning approach to benchmark, test and validate assumptions and key learnings arising from the proposed irrigation investments (see Background). It is a hands on approach as opposed to growers and advisers being provided with findings at the end of the research period.
Participants of ALGs will be actively involved in:
* Developing and validating agronomic practices on-farm with the aim to realise the genetic potential of grain crops grown under irrigation.
* Increasing yield potential of irrigated crops through evaluation and on farm adoption of novel amelioration techniques that improve soil structure.
* Benchmarking irrigation systems and testing assumptions in order to optimise farm scale returns from irrigated grains: maximising $ return per megalitre of water.
Location
Queensland : Cairns & Far North Queensland : Gladstone : Mackay Whitsunday Region : Mount Isa & North West Region : Rockhampton : South East Queensland : South West & Darling Downs : The Central West : Townsville : Wide Bay Burnett
Victoria : Barwon South West : Gippsland : Grampians : Hume : Loddon Mallee : Melbourne
South Australia : Adelaide : Eyre & Western : Far North : Fleurieu & Kangaroo Island : Limestone Coast : Murray & Mallee : York & Mid North
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