Archiv: Seiten älter als 10 JahreDen besten Überblick auf die gewaltigen Ausmaße des Die Aufnahmen dieser Seite stammen von dem Flug in die Eine Bewässerungslandwirtschaft wie hier an der Seit 1972 kann man hier eine Veränderung beobachten, die in den Nachbargebieten mit herkömmlicher landwirtschaftlicher Ausrichtung bei den früheren Zählungen auch sichtbar wurde, nämlich die Konzentration der Bevölkerung in den wenigen Versorgungszentren und eine Abnahme im Umland. Realignment upgrades to a section of Great Northern Highway, north of Ord River are complete and open to traffic. Today the irrigated areas successfully produce a variety of fruits and vegetables, with the most recent crop being sandalwood. Doch der Baumwollanbau inklusive Insektenbekämpfung war so kostenintensiv, dass man unter Druck der Weltmarktpreise schließlich Konkurs anmelden musste. In 2013, the Wilderness Society estimated that $1.45 billion had been spent on the Ord Irrigation Scheme for a return of 17 cents for every dollar spent.The Ord River dams provide water for The Ord River Dam Hydro Scheme is a privately funded, owned and operated power system in the East Some concerns have been raised that the large body of water created by the dam could attract Asian insects and birds which may transmit dangerous viruses such as Like so many other experiments in tropical agriculture the scheme initially failed because of difficulties growing crops and attack from pests. On one side you have the massive Lake Argyle and on the other the Ord River. 30 Farmen mit insgesamt ca 12.000 Hektar Land werden bewässert. Great Northern Highway Upgrade - Ord River North. Ltd. to set up and run the first "pilot farm." I have named this river the Ord, after His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia, who has taken so great an interest in this expedition. One of the highlights of our caravanning trip around Australia was to cruise down the Ord River from Lake Argyle to Lake Kununurra. The lower Ord river and the conjunction with Cambridge Gulf create the most northern estuarine environment in Western Australia.. Marked a tree F 158.The headwaters of the Ord river are located below the 983 metre Mount Wells and initially flows east and around the edge of The idea of damming the Ord was first mentioned over 100 years ago, when the Western Australia Commissioner of Tropical Agriculture, Adrian Despeissis, suggested, This was backed by the WA Government but was to run as a commercial farming venture.By November 1960 the first 200 acres had been chain-dozed and cleared, a channel and pumps were in place, to irrigate the first commercial rice crop that had been planted on the new pilot farm. Der ursprüngliche Zweck des Bewässerungsprojektes war es, Baumwolle anzubauen. Künstliche Bewässerung Hier im nördlichen Western Australia wird schon 1967 der erste Abschnitt eines gigantischen Bewässerungsprojektes eröffnet. Durch Absatzkrisen bei den Produkten der Bewässerungslandwirtschaft, vor allem in den durch Zölle abgeschirmten Ländern der EU, befinden sich heute viele Bewässerungsgebiete in einer wirtschaftlich sehr kritischen Phase, das merkt man auch am Finishing works are expected to be complete in 2020. The focus in 1937 was that a dam on the Ord could supplement the pastoral industry.Then Minister for Lands and Agriculture, F J S Wise, in 1937 wrote What a fabulous place is Lake Argyle. The Ord River is a 320-kilometre (200 mi) long river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.The river's catchment covers 46,100 square kilometres (17,799 sq mi). The dam wall soars high enough to capture large volumes of floodwaters in very wet seasons. Work continued at the Carlton Reach experimental station for Kim Durack with assistance from his brother William A. Durack, on various agricultural experiments, centred on supplementing the pastoral industry.Early in 1944 Dumas wrote to the It would be another two years before the Commonwealth Government became involved, with the establishment of a joint In 1951, The KRS Supervisory Committee (KRSSC) indicated that sugar and rice were two cash crops that could justify dam construction.Over the 13 years between 1946 and 1959 various agricultural experiments were undertaken at KRS and in April 1959 the KRS Supervisory Committee recommended the establishment of a pilot farm. In August 1959, the Commonwealth Government made a grant of £5m to The Ord River Irrigation Area (ORIA), which was originally known as the Ord River Irrigation Scheme (ORIS) or Ord River Project, when it was approved by the Commonwealth Government, late in 1959 and began in 1960 with the establishment of the town of The construction of the Ord River Diversion Dam started in late 1960 and was officially opened in July 1963 by then To test the commercial viability of the ORIA, the WA Government, passed an act of parliament, known as the Northern Development (Ord River) Act, and in October 1960, ratified an agreement with the company Northern Developments, Ord River Pty. Allocation of commercial farm land during Stage 1 of the project was allocated in stages, with the first group of farmers arriving in 1962 and final allocations completed in 1966.Work started on the main Ord River Dam in 1969 and was completed before the official opening on 30 June 1972 by This marks the beginning of Ord stage twoThe main Ord River Dam, known locally as "Top Dam" holds back the waters of the Ord River in Until the mid-2010s most reports of the scheme derided its lack of economic return.