The Northern Territory Government took the opportunity to launch their agribusiness strategy, which covers 100,000 hectares of widespread crops, including cotton in the NT, Cotton Australia said in a press release. .
Cotton Australia CEO Adam Kay spoke on water efficiency at the Northern Australia Food Future Conference. The Northern Territory government has launched an agribusiness strategy that aims to develop agriculture into a $2 billion industry by 2030. The Cotton, Grains and Cattle Program was introduced to increase yield in specific farming areas.
To support the various goals, the Northern Territory government emphasized the need to add value chain facilities including cottonseeders and forecast changes in the permitted uses of land title. existing ministries to include farming and horticulture activities while reducing the time frame for land and water supply permit approvals.
Cotton Australia welcomes this strategy and is committed to working closely with the government and all stakeholders to achieve appropriate agribusiness development in a sustainable manner.
The NT Environmental Center attacked the announcement that included a suggestion that the strategy would ‘promote more destructive land clearing.’ Jo Townsend, executive director of the NT . Department of Environment, Parks and Watersaid at the conference that “there is no basis for any claims” by the NT Environmental Center.
The event also laid the groundwork for the launch of the Cotton, Grains and Cattle (CGC) Program which aims to maximize the productivity of beef production and crop farming systems in the Kununurra (Ord) Region. of Western Australia and in Katherine and Douglas. Daly of the Northern Territory and in the growing crop production areas of northern Queensland (Gilbert River system).
The aim of the program is to support the further development of integrated CGC farming systems, through research, development and extension projects including optimizing agronomy and enabling crop diversity, conservation crop protection and biosecurity.
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