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bullet.gif (981 bytes)Australia's farming future: doing more with less water

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CriticalAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking 

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Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Sustainability Priority

 

1. In an article from The Conversation in July 2013, John Passioura, an Honorary Research Fellow at the CSIRO, explored the agronomists' role in increasing the yield production of wheat within  Australia.

Read and analyse this article:

The Conversation

2. List the three agronomic research findings. Put in order of importance and justify to a partner.

3. Read the following article from the Conversation 23 December 2016

The Conversation

What are some of the findings or thoughts in this article that interested, intrigued or alarmed you? Why? Discuss with a partner.

4. Mentioned in the above article, is the tomato solar-powered greenhouse using salt water to supply water. Read and watch, in more detail, about this greenhouse:

ABC Landline 2012
https://youtu.be/KCup_B_RHM4

 

Sundrop 2014
https://youtu.be/U2n9wKZOkGA

 

ABC News 2 October 2016

ABC News
ABC Landline October 2016 [Video]

Landline


Sundrop Farms

Sundrop
ABC News 15 May 2019

ABC News 15 May 2019

5. Create an iMovie about your vision for the Australian future in agronomy.

6. Write a poem about this innovation and the growing of tomato crops.

 

 

bullet.gif (981 bytes)A Native Bush Food Agronomist: what's the potential?

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CriticalAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

LiteracyAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

IndigenousAustralian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Sustainability Priority

 

 

1. As an agronomist, you are to recommend different crops or potential crops to farmers. In Western Australia, there has been a limited trial to grow bush food commercially.

It has a lot of potential and the food products could be in demand in restaurants around Australia.

Using the websites below, examine the potential for farmers in the other Australian States and Territories to develop new native crops to commercial standard.

 

Landline 18 June 2016 [ Video]

Landline


ABC Rural: Environment: Top 10 Australian native foods you need in your kitchen

Native foods
News story: 17 June 2016

News
Wikipedia: Bush Tucker

Wikipedia
News story: 23 August 2014

News
News story: 31 October 2019

ABC News 31 October 2019

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