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Title:
Rice farms in the Murray-Darling Basin
Series:
Research reports
Series Issue:
16.2
Publication Date:
26/07/2016
Description:
Rice farms in the Murray-Darling Basin presents key farm performance measures for irrigated rice growing farms in the Basin, including data on water trading and use of irrigation technologies, with an emphasis on results from 2012-13 to 2014-15. ABARES has conducted surveys of irrigation farms in selected industries and regions in the Murray-Darling Basin since 2006-07. The Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) funded this latest survey. This report focused on rice growing farms in the southern Murray-Darling Basin, where almost all of Australia's rice is produced. After 100 per cent closing water allocations in 2012-13, there were falls in allocations in 2013-14 and particularly in 2014-15. Average farm cash incomes in 2014-15 fell by around 28 per cent to around $132 000. The average rate of return was 1.7 per cent, higher than the average for all survey years of 1.3 per cent. All rice growers used flood irrigation because of the need to apply large volumes of water to rice crops at high delivery rates. In most survey years, a majority of rice farms did not buy or sell irrigation water. Of those farms that did trade water, there were more sellers than buyers of water. On average, sellers of water recorded higher rates of return on capital than either buyers or those not trading water.
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ABARES : Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences : Department of Agriculture
Author:
ASHTON Dale

OLIVER Mark

NORRIE Declan
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Other constraints: All material in this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence, save for content supplied by third parties, logos and the Commonwealth Coat of Arms. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au

Other constraints: This publication (and any material sourced from them) should be attributed as: Ashton, D, Oliver, M & Norrie, D 2016, Rice farms in the Murray-Darling Basin, ABARES research report 16.2, Canberra, July. CC BY 3.0
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ISBN 978-1-74323-291-0

ISSN 1447-8358
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pb_rfmdbd9aasf20160726
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