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Authors: Kirk Zammit, Christopher Boult, Shiji Zhao and Liangyue Cao
Summary
This paper introduces new agricultural export price and volume indicators. These indicators cover a gap in the available agricultural export statistics and will provide further insights into Australian agricultural…
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ABARES provides research and evidence-based economic advice on agricultural trade and cross-border issues to government, the Australian community and other stakeholders. Our work addresses medium to longer term issues, with implications for policy priorities.
ABARES uses a variety of tools to…
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The Australian vegetable–growing sector is an important source of food. It supplies most of the fresh vegetables consumed in Australia and provides inputs for the processed vegetable products consumed in Australia or exported.
Vegetables are an important part of healthy eating and provide a…
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Authors: Dale Ashton and Jeremy van Dijk
In 2014–15 rice production contributed 4 per cent of the total gross value of irrigated agricultural production in the Murray–Darling Basin (ABS 2017). Almost all of Australia’s rice production occurs in the NSW Murray and Murrumbidgee regions in the…
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Author: Dale Ashton
Key performance results
Average farm cash income for dairy farmers in the Murray–Darling Basin peaked in 2013–14, before declining in 2014–15 and 2015–16 because of lower milk prices and higher input costs. In real terms, dairy farm incomes in 2015–16 are estimated to…
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Authors: Dale Ashton and Jeremy van Dijk The Murray–Darling Basin accounts for about three-quarters of Australia’s citrus, pome fruit (that is, fruit with a core of several small seeds such as apples and pears) and stone fruit…
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Authors: Dale Ashton and Jay Gomboso
The Murray–Darling Basin accounts for around 80 per cent of Australia’s total irrigated grape production (MDBA 2016). More than 60 per cent of Australia’s total grapevine area is in the Basin, and grapes contributed an estimated 11 …
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Authors: Dale Ashton and Jay Gomboso
The southern Murray–Darling Basin has around one-fifth of Australia’s total dairy farms. In 2014–15 irrigated dairy production contributed 17 per cent of the total gross value of irrigated agricultural production in the Basin (ABS 2016).
Dairy farming in…
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Author: Dale Ashton The Murray–Darling Basin accounts for around 91 per cent of Australia’s total cotton farms and cotton area (ABS 2016a). From 2006–07 to 2014–15 irrigated cotton contributed an average of…
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Industry overview
Irrigated agriculture in the Murray–Darling Basin makes an important contribution to the Australian economy and regional economies. In 2014–15 the Basin accounted for 66 per cent of Australia’s total area irrigated and 40 per cent of the nation’s irrigating agricultural…
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