- Title
- Identifying farmer typologies, perspectives and aspirations of the Wimmera Mallee Pipeline : Summary Report
- Creator
- Schwarz, Imogen; McRae-Williams, Pam
- Date
- 2007
- Type
- Text; Book; Report
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/166487
- Identifier
- vital:13451
- Identifier
- ISBN:
- Abstract
- This document presents a summary of the findings of a significant research project examining the implications of a more secure stock and domestic water supply system for a large dryland agricultural region. It identifies key issues, concerns and opportunities as perceived by farmers of various farmer typologies. It explores innovation, and the drivers and barriers to the adoption of new farming practices. The research was commissioned by the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) as part of the Sustainable Agribusiness Opportunities from the Wimmera Mallee Pipeline (SAOW) initiative. This research will inform DPI in developing a targeted and insightful approach to extension programs to assist farmers and farming groups connecting to the Wimmera Mallee Pipeline (WMP). More background information and detailed findings can be found in the full report located on the WIDCORP website (www.widcorp.com). The Wimmera Mallee Water Supply system historically delivered stock and domestic water across the dryland Wimmera Mallee region of Victoria via open earthen channels from storages in the Grampians to farms and town storages across the region (van Veldhuisen, 2001). Whilst this system was critical for the development of agriculture and communities within the region, wastage of approximately 103,000ML of water through evaporation and seepage across this system was no longer sustainable (GWMWater, 2003). In response to this situation, construction of the WMP Project commenced in late 2006, led by Grampians Wimmera Mallee Water (GWMWater) with funding from the community, state and federal governments. This major infrastructure project will replace the delivery of open channel water to the Wimmera Mallee farms and towns with a pipeline supply from headworks in the Grampians
- Publisher
- Water in Drylands Collaborative Research Program (WIDCORP) for Department of Primary Industries
- Relation
- Series Volume No. 3
- Rights
- Copyright Water in Drylands Collaborative Research Program © 2007 This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without permission from Water in Drylands Collaborative Research Program. Requests and inquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed to the Research Director, Water in Drylands Collaborative Research Program, University of Ballarat, VIC 3400.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Farmer typologies; Wimmera Mallee Pipeline
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