Productive resource efficiencies inputs for cotton production are optimised.
Increasing resource pressures are pushing up input prices (water, energy, fertiliser) and there is a growing need to optimise the use of these inputs in order to remain profitable.
Australia’s current globally competitive resource efficiency is not sufficient to sustain the profitability of its cotton production system. This theme will equip farmers to break new ground in the yields of cotton that can be achieved per unit of major inputs – fertiliser, water and energy. RD&E efforts will focus on increasing the quality and accessibility of information for decision making as well as the availability of tools and technologies that facilitate more precise applications of resources.
We will achieve this by:
Delivering benchmarks of on-farm resource use efficiencies.
- Developing and proving decision systems and practices that deliver optimal resource efficiencies on cotton farms.
- Developing new systems and tools to support farm decisionmaking processes.
- Improving capacity, knowledge and adoption of techniques to optimise resource uses.
Measures of success:
Farmers are able to increase their productivity;
- per hectare of land
- per unit of nitrogen fertiliser
- per ML water
- per unit of CO2 equivalent emitted
The Productive Resources theme is managed by CRDC’s R&D Program Managers Jane Trindall (Water and Energy), Allan Williams (Nutrition). For more information, contact us.
