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October 21st 2010 00:11
Murray Darling Basin Authority
The guide to the draft for the proposed plan to save the Murray Darling Basin from drying up and becoming wasteland has been released. What a kafuffle it is causing. Irrigators are bellyaching that towns will be destroyed, farmers bankrupted, and whole communities ruined if what has been recommended is put into practice.
I hear greed screaming about having to retreat from it’s safe secure position. Supposing water allocations are reduced by 27-37%. What of diversity in agriculture? Are we so hide bound that we cannot do something else with the land apart from pour water all over it? I am an old man now, but I do remember when every farmer had a variety of ways of gaining an income from his farm. Not any more. The single product farm is promoted by the greedy buggers with vested interests as the way of - economic productivity. It may be the best way to make a quick dollar but it is not sustainable in any way shape or form
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The guide to the draft for the proposed plan to save the Murray Darling Basin from drying up and becoming wasteland has been released. What a kafuffle it is causing. Irrigators are bellyaching that towns will be destroyed, farmers bankrupted, and whole communities ruined if what has been recommended is put into practice.
I hear greed screaming about having to retreat from it’s safe secure position. Supposing water allocations are reduced by 27-37%. What of diversity in agriculture? Are we so hide bound that we cannot do something else with the land apart from pour water all over it? I am an old man now, but I do remember when every farmer had a variety of ways of gaining an income from his farm. Not any more. The single product farm is promoted by the greedy buggers with vested interests as the way of - economic productivity. It may be the best way to make a quick dollar but it is not sustainable in any way shape or form
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