Table grape grower Anthony Cirillo said help to install "cutting edge technology" had resulted in bigger crops and better-quality fruit using "the same, if not less, water". The irrigation efficiency incentives program from the Mallee Catchment Management Authority (CMA) helped to fast track conversion of older sprinkler systems to drip [...]
SJDC Produce director Domenic Sergi said the irrigation efficiency incentive program through the Mallee CMA allowed them to "improve our farm infrastructure", and "help bring our systems to modern standard, to best practice". With financial assistance from the incentive program and training through Agriculture Victoria they were able interpret soil [...]
The Victorian Mallee Irrigation Region Land and Water Management Plan is being renewed and is now open for public comment. The plan sets out objectives and actions to deliver sustainable irrigation in the Mallee catchment area. Mallee Irrigation Region planning area (Mallee CMA) The latest draft: Provides the [...]
Merbein Pistachios farm manager Chris Rayner says the technical knowledge and understanding he can now apply to their 60-hectare planting is “as good as it gets”. The grower was supported by the Mallee CMA’s Irrigation Efficiency Incentives Program open to irrigators for work that can be shown to save water, [...]
