in 2015/16 a number of the regions’ most forward thinking land managers celebrated agricultural innovation and shared knowledge on a cross regional bus tour beginning on the Atherton Tablelands. Visiting properties across the Wet Tropics, Burdekin Dry Tropics and finishing in the Mackay Whitsunday region, the ‘Innovation in Agriculture’ bus tour examined how farmers are trialling methods in mixed farming like horticulture, sugarcane and aquaculture to boost productivity while improving water quality and protecting the Great Barrier Reef.
Monitoring Organisation Reef Catchments
Name Katrina Dent
Phone 4968 4207
Email katrina.dent@reefcatchments.com
Position in organisation General Manager
Activity Type educational initiatives (e.g. schools programs, community initiatives)
Activity Indicators water quality in freshwater river basins
Activity location Don catchment, O'Connell catchment, Pioneer catchment, Proserpine catchment
Frequency of monitoring
Monitoring Start Date 01/07/2015
30/06/2016Location of monitoring data
Date quality / confidence
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