MacTiernen announces sustainable farming funding

By Mal Gill
Updated July 7 2021 - 6:43pm, first published 7:50am
Agriculture and Food Minister Alannah MacTiernan inspects year-round cover and forage crop trials at the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) with DPIRD deputy director general of primary industries Carl Binning (left), sustainable water management chairman and agricultural sciences leader at Murdoch University's School of Veterinary and Life Sciences professor Richard Harper (back), DPIRD technical officer Jason Bradley, Curtin University soil and landscape science researcher professor Raphael Viscarra Rossel and the University of WA agriculture and environment researcher associate professor James Fogarty. Similar onfarm trials may be eligible for grants under the Carbon Farming and Land Restoration Program.
Agriculture and Food Minister Alannah MacTiernan inspects year-round cover and forage crop trials at the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) with DPIRD deputy director general of primary industries Carl Binning (left), sustainable water management chairman and agricultural sciences leader at Murdoch University's School of Veterinary and Life Sciences professor Richard Harper (back), DPIRD technical officer Jason Bradley, Curtin University soil and landscape science researcher professor Raphael Viscarra Rossel and the University of WA agriculture and environment researcher associate professor James Fogarty. Similar onfarm trials may be eligible for grants under the Carbon Farming and Land Restoration Program.

GRANTS programs providing $15 million to help farmers and researchers establish and monitor carbon abatement projects are not a "green wash", Agriculture and Food Minister Alannah MacTiernan stressed.

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