Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP100200456

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP100200456

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Halophytes for high-saline agriculture: optimising performance and understanding physiology. The recent drought has shaved off up to 1 per cent of Australia's economic growth and resulted in losses of over $6 billion in crop and livestock production. At the same time, very large volumes of water with impaired chemical quality are generated by industry and municipal water treatment processes. In most cases, these cannot be used directly for crop irrigation and have to be disposed of at extreme cost and waste. This project will utilise halophytes as 'alternative cash crops' to use the saline water produced by the coal seam gas operations in the Surat Basin area in Queensland. This will result in a saving of at least $48 million over the five years of operation.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 09-2010

End Date: 12-2015

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $290,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Agricultural Land Management | Crop and Pasture Production | Crop and Pasture Biochemistry and Physiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Management of Water Consumption by Plant Production |

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