4618.0 - Water Use on Australian Farms, 2005-06  
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 13/03/2008   
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Information on irrigation practices on Australian farms was first collected in the Water Survey Agriculture 2002-03 and since then has been part of the annual Agricultural Survey or Census. Included in this issue are data on the type and area of crops irrigated, volume of water applied, and the sources of water used in agriculture. Data are available for each State, Statistical Division, Natural Resource Management regions and the Murray Darling Basin. Some previous estimates are included for 2002-03, 2003-04 and 2004-05. Data Cubes will be released for this product at a later date.

Updates preliminary estimates on water data from the Agricultural Census 2005-06 released in this catalogue number in August 2007.