Irrigated crops

In areas such as the Ord River Irrigation Area in northern Western Australia, the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development is working with industry in trialling new varieties and agronomic systems for both existing and potentially valuable new crops.

The main crops of current interest include the health food quinoa, rice which is showing considerable potential if disease and variety problems can be overcome, sugar cane which will be the basis of new developments on Ord Stage 2, and cotton which is based on genetically-modified varieties.

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    Pest and Disease Information Service (PaDIS)

    15 October 2013

    The Pest and Disease Information Service (PaDIS) provides advisory and identification services on animal and plant pests, weeds and diseases that impact Western Australia's agriculture and food ind

  • Flaxleaf fleabane on the south coast of WA

    Summer weeds

    17 January 2014

    Summer weeds can rob subsequent crops of soil nitrogen and stored soil water. They can also reduce crop emergence by causing physical and/or chemical interference at seeding time.

  • Irrigation at work

    Irrigation design for agriculture

    22 January 2016

    Irrigation design and management affects performance, yield and quality of crops.  Irrigation design determines the efficiency and effectiveness of water use, and therefore influences the profitabi

  • Soil moisture probe in broccoli crop

    Soil moisture monitoring to fine-tune irrigation scheduling

    13 November 2013

    Determining how water moves through soil and is used by plants following irrigation is difficult.

  • Measuring the wetting pattern beneath drip irrigation

    Using dye to show water movement below drip irrigation

    14 November 2013

    Water movement patterns on the soil surface may not be a good guide to what is happening below the surface and can lead to inefficient irrigation.

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