Agriculture In Australia
A summary of the National Land and Water Resources Audit's Australian Agriculture Assessment 2001
About the summary
The National Land and Water Resources Audit (Audit) is conducting the first Australia-wide assessments of:
- water availability and quality
- dryland salinity
- vegetation
- rangelands
- agricultural productivity and sustainability
- Australians in natural resource management
- catchments, rivers and estuaries
- biodiversity
It is the first time that the Commonwealth, States and Territories have collaborated on such a broad program.
Australian Agriculture Assessment 2001 provides:
- the first comprehensive assessment of water-borne erosion and sediment transport for agricultural catchments, rivers and estuaries
- nutrient budgets and changes in nutrient loads to rivers and estuaries
- changes in landscape water and nutrient budgets and an assessment of farm nutrient balances
- implications for on-farm nutrient management
- current and future extent of acidity and acidification for agricultural soils and their impact on production
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