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

Created 12/05/2013

Updated 12/04/2018

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 a unique 3 digit code for Statistical Divisions (SD), Sd name a the name of the Statistical Division (SD),Irrig_sal- the proportion of farmers who experienced problems in 1998-1999.Ag_land_ha a 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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Title Farms with significant degradation problems (irrigation salinity), 1998-1999
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/5189b154-2551-4f71-b306-2e721cc83c7a
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Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics and Sciences
Land_Management@agriculture.gov.au
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Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal data.gov.au

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This dataset was originally found on data.gov.au "Farms with significant degradation problems (irrigation salinity), 1998-1999". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
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