NCEA receives funding for smarter irrigation

Abstract

Dr Joseph Foley and a team of National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture (NCEA) researchers have started working with 16 R&D partners and up to 19 farmer-managed learning sites in a $3.7 million Federal Government funded Rural R&D for Profit programme to improve the profit of each individual irrigator enterprise across the cotton, dairy, sugar and other agricultural sectors by $20,000-$40,000 per annum.