Saltland Genie Web App - Practical information on productive grazing of salt affected land
Justin Hardy DPIRD Albany WA
Correspondence: justin.hardy@dpird.wa.gov.au
Correspondence: admin@gillamii.org.au
Famers now have an online tool at their fingertips to rehabilitate salt affected land.
Dryland salinity affects about 1.75 million hectares of public and private land in the South-West of Western Australia, resulting in lost agricultural productivity. An estimated 340,000 hectares of cleared agricultural land is classed as moderately salt affected, to which there are proven productive solutions available.
The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development in partnership with Great Southern-based natural resource management group Gillamii Centre have developed and tested eight decision support tools to help landholders implement solutions on their salt affected land.
Farmers and landholders can enter their water and soil salinity measurements to help find practical solutions, access information about on-site implementation and estimate the return on investment from planned rehabilitation.
There are details on selecting solutions best suited to a particular environment, detail on suitable plant species, ‘how-to’ prescriptive YouTube videos, farmer case studies, a soil salinity calculator, and a water salinity calculator to determine safe drinking water requirements for sheep and cattle.
The Saltland Genie project has been supported with funding from the Western Australian Government’s State NRM Program and is available at https://www.saltlandgenie.com/
