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February 3, 2012
A recent report on Victoria’s food and fibre export performance released by the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) shows that Victoria is recovering from the drought.
The agriculture and food exports out of Victorian ports have now set a record with its earnings surging to $8.1billion for the financial year 2010-2011. Most of it was grown in Victoria.
“Victoria is a major supplier of food an... Click here for full story
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August 16, 2011
On ABCs 7pm TV news on the 25th July an item appeared that commented on a recently released report by Environment Victoria which claims, despite all the evidence to the contrary that a further reduction of irrigation water available for food production will not have any adverse effect on productivity.
Called “Oversubscribed” the report argued that because farmers were offering th... Click here for full story
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June 29, 2011
It was shocking to hear today that a huge parcel of land has been sold to an off-shore owned mining company, Shenhua Watermark Coal who have picked up 43 farms on some of the best soils in Australia in northern New South Wales.
Apparently the intention is to convert the land from food and fibre growing to coalmining. The coalmining in the area of course has major impacts on the Great Art... Click here for full story
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