Farms with significant degradation problems (irrigation salinity), 1998-1999

Description

This data relates to the proportion of farms who experienced significant irrigation salinity problems in the period 1998-1999. Proportion of farms with significant irrigation salinity problems is reported at the Statistical Division (SD) level for Australia. This data relates to broadacre and dairy farms run by owner managers. The data was collected by Resource Management Supplementary (RMS) survey interview which accompanied the ABARE Annual farm survey in 1998-1999.The data is presented at a scale of 25000000. Projection -P Albers Equal-Area Conic -D WGS84 -m 132 -o 0 -p -18 -p -36 -e 0 -n 0The following attributes are contained within the dataset; Sd code – a unique 3 digit code for Statistical Divisions (SD), Sd name – the name of the Statistical Division (SD),Irrig_sal- the proportion of farmers who experienced problems in 1998-1999.Ag_land_ha – hectares of agricultural land use in the Statistical Division (SD).Note that metropolitan areas are assigned a value of -99999, whilst areas with no data are assigned a value of -88888.

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Date Published
1 June 2000
Date Updated
1 October 2010
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Not specified

Dataset Information

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Contributing Agency Information

Agency
Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry (View all datasets from Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry)
Jurisdiction
Agency Program
Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences

Dataset Coverage

Temporal Coverage
1998 to 1999
Geospatial Coverage
Australia
Granularity
Statistical Division

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