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Coastal Agriculture

Water Quality and Sugar


NQ Dry Tropics has a number of publications to help cane farmers improve water quality on their farms.

Reef Rescue ABCD Framework Brochure - Sugar

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Contact Us

NQ Dry Tropics

Phone: 07 4724 3544
Fax:     07 4724 3577
Email:  info@nqdrytropics.com.au

Staff email addresses: firstname.lastname@nqdrytropics.com.au

Street Address

2 McIlwraith St
Townsville, Qld 4810

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Paddock to Reef

It measures water quality.

The Paddock to Reef Integrated Monitoring Modelling and Reporting program monitors whether the funding improvements made by Reef Rescue and the Reef Protection Package are making significant enough improvements to our water.  

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Reef Protection Package

The Reef Protection Package is regulation instigated by the Queensland Government through theGreat Barrier Reef Protection Amendment Act 2009. The Reef Protection Package is specifically aims reduce the loss of pesticides, nutrients and sediment from agricultural land.

All farmers are subject to guidelines about fertiliser and pesticide use. See www.reefwisefarming.qld.gov.au for more information.

Other regulations govern the pollution load from mining, and urban waste.

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Reef Rescue

File: 440Reef Rescue is part of the Australian Government’s $2.2 billion Caring for our Country initiative.  

It aims to improve the quality of water running into the Great Barrier Reef.

NQ Dry Tropics makes funding available to horticulture and sugarcane farmers from Bowen to Crystal Creek and graziers in some catchments. 

Within our region $6 to 8 million a year assists farmers and graziers with up to 50% of on ground improvements to individual properties for a greener future.

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Reef Plan

The Reef Plan also known as the Water Quality Protection Plan is jointly funded by Australian and Queensland Governments.

It’s worth $375 million over five years and its aim is to reduce sediment, nutrient and pesticide run off by 20 per cent into the Great Barrier Reef.  It applies to all the land between Cape York and Hervey Bay.  

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Terrific response for reef money

5 March 2010

North Queensland agricultural property owners are improving the way they doing things.

One farmer is using the backyard method of composting to replace fertilisers; others are fencing off riverbanks, modifying machinery and finding unusual ways of killing weeds.

It’s all to improve the quality of water going into the Great Barrier Reef.

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Students clean up with a dugong’s help

1 June 2010

In the lead up to World Environment Day, NQ Dry Tropics mascot Duey the Dugong will show Townsville kids how to help keep waterways free from rubbish.

Grade three students at Ryan Catholic College in Townsville will be cleaning up around their school tomorrow (Wednesday 2 June.)

Reef Guardian Schools project officer Carolyn Luder will be on-hand to help students understand how easily rubbish becomes deadly marine debris after heavy rain.

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Money to improve farms

10 August 2010

Want to make a positive change in the way you farm, but can’t afford it? You can now.

Over $3 million dollars of Reef Rescue funding is available to farmers in north Queensland to make environmental improvements to their farm.

Round three of Reef Rescue is now open for sugar and horticulture farmers.

Reef Rescue has been hailed as the Australian Government’s most successful environmental initiative. The funding improves the quality of water going into the Great Barrier Reef.

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Plans are still a puzzle for landholders

16 June 2010

Graziers are still confused about new Queensland Government reef protection legislation.

Over 500 landholders in our region attended information days throughout north Queensland explaining the new environment plans they need to do.

By September this year all graziers on properties over 2,000 hectares in the Burdekin Dry Tropics natural resource management region have to complete an Environment Risk Management Plan.

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