'Project 25' - farmers, water quality and on-farm decision-making (Old ID 24991)
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
Landholder concerns surrounding the credibility of broad-scale water quality monitoring and modelling initiatives in the GBR catchment area are one of the key cane industry engagement challenges for promoting significant farming practice change, and water quality improvements. Based around small, sub-catchment water quality monitoring in a key GBR cane growing region, Project 25 utilises a bottom-up approach to integrated sub-catchment monitoring and intervention to identify 'hot spot' sub-catchments through localised water quality monitoring. The Project emphasises industry ownership and control of monitoring design, and delivery of locally targeted water quality data and extension effort to facilitate practice change.
Date
01 Jan 2018 - 10 Dec 2020
Project Type
N/A
Keywords
Farming;Great Barrier Reef;Stakeholder;sugarcane;Monitoring;Nutrient
Funding Body
Department of the Environment and Energy
Amount
400000
Project Team
N/A