Salinity Management: Avon Region Salinity Tender
Delivery organisation: Wheatbelt NRM
Investment: $837 138
On-ground achievements:
- Round one (2005-2007) - $399 000 to 42 farmers for establishing oil mallees, sandalwood, other native trees, tagasaste, lucerne and mixed perennial pastures
- Round two (2007-2008) - $390 000 to 9 farmers / farmer groups for establishing native trees, lucerne, oil mallees, brushwood, Casuarina obesa, mixed perennial pastures and fencing
- 2430 ha of land had tree and pasture species established to contain salinity in Rounds 1 & 2
- 522 ha of land had tree and pasture species established to adapt to salinity in Round 2
Community engagement and capacity building
- Salinity tender participants received one-on-one technical advice on site
- Case studies and media articles produced to promote the tender and the success of activities
- Conference paper presented to the 4th international Salinity Conference by Dr Elizabeth Kington
Did you know?
- The accepted round one tenders resulted in outcomes over 617 hectares at a cost of $400,000. If the accepted land managers were instead paid the marginal (i.e. highest) flat rate per hectare that was tendered, the cost would have been $524,000.
