Agricultural Commodities for 1996/97 (linked to profit function surfaces)

This dataset contains a national grid, of roughly 1km cell size, showing the major forms of agricultural commodity production. The forms of commodity production, classified in the land use map as either dryland or irrigated, include: Agroforestry, Almonds, Apples, Apricots, Avocados, Bananas, Barley, Beef, Canola, Cereals Ex Rice, Cereals For Hay, Cherries, Chick, Peas, Corriander, Cotton, Dairy, Faba Beans, Fennel, Field Peas, Grain Sorghum, Grapes, Lavender, Lemons/Lime, Lentils, Lupins, Macadamia, Maize, Mandarins, Mangoes, Millet, Mung Beans, Mustard, Native Pasture, Nectarines, Non-Cereal Crops For, Nurseries/Flowers, Oats, Oil Poppies, Olives, Oranges, Other Field Beans, Other Sown Pastures, Other Stone Fruit, Other Vegetables, Peaches, Peanuts, Pears, Pineapples, Plums, Potatoes, Pure Lucerne, Pyrethrum, Rambutan, Residual, Rice, Safflower, Sheep, Sown Pasture, Soybeans, Sugar Cane, Sunflower, Tobacco, Triticale, Turf, Vetches and Wheat. The land use map is derived from the 1996/97 land use map of Australia produced by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences for the National Land and Water Resources Audit. Some modifications were made to the National land use map in order to capture required details on commodity production and allocate pasture to livestock production. The land use map locates over 60 forms of agricultural land use, classified as either dryland or irrigated. Details on the land use map are available in metadata from the Australian Natural Resources Data Library and other supporting documents from the Australian Natural Resources Atlas.

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