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Irrigators search for answers
24 Sep 2007
The South Australian Murray Irrigators group has predicted that around half of the fruit-bearing orchards and vineyards will die, costing millions of dollars in lost income and taking four to five years for replantings to yield a crop again. A meeting of SAMI discussed the possibility of seeking compensation for having water allocations reduced to the current 16 per cent, but had decided to prioritise and focus on saving permanent plantings. The committee members are going to investigate how much water could be leased from growers of temporary plantings, such as potatoes and onions, and also look at purchasing water from up-river in Victoria and NSW. As a rule of thumb irrigators would need around 40 per cent of their water allocations to save trees and vines.
News.com.au, 23/09/2007
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