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  2. Agriculture in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Adults employed in the agriculture, forestry and fishing industries as a percentage of the adult population in Australia based upon the 2011 census, divided geographically by statistical local area. Although Australia is mostly arid, the nation is a major agricultural producer and exporter, with around 421,000 people employed in agriculture ...

  3. Category:Agriculture in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Agriculture in Australia by state or territory (8 C) + Australian agriculturalists (17 P) A. Australian farmers (14 C, 35 P) Agrarian parties in Australia (1 C, 12 P)

  4. Lockyer Valley - Wikipedia

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    The Lockyer Valley is an area of rich farmlands that lies to the west of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and east of Toowoomba. The Lockyer Valley is rated among the top ten most fertile farming areas in the world, [1] and the intensively cultivated area grows the most diverse range of commercial fruit and vegetables of any area in Australia ...

  5. Land use statistics by country - Wikipedia

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    Percentage figures for arable land, permanent crops land and other lands are all taken from the CIA World Factbook [1] as well as total land area figures [2] (Note: the total area of a country is defined as the sum of total land area and total water area together.) All other figures, including total cultivated land area, are calculated on the ...

  6. Wheatbelt (Australia) - Wikipedia

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    The isopleth of the wheatbelt corresponds to the Goyder's line in South Australia, with Orroroo and Minnipa being on the boundary. In Western Australia, Southern Cross lies on the bounds, with other areas on the boundary being Mildura in Victoria, Cobar or Walgett to Deniliquin in New South Wales, and St George in Queensland. [3] [4]

  7. Murray–Darling basin - Wikipedia

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    The Snowy Mountains Scheme provides some security of water flows to the Murray–Darling Basin, providing approximately 2,100 gigalitres (7.4×10 10 cu ft) of water a year to the Basin for use in Australia's irrigated agriculture industry, which is worth about A$3 billion per annum, representing more than 40% of the gross value of the nation's ...

  8. Liverpool Plains - Wikipedia

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    The Liverpool Plains are an extensive agricultural area covering about 12,000 km 2 (4,600 sq mi) of the north-western slopes of New South Wales in Australia. These plains are a region of prime agricultural land bounded to the east by the Great Dividing Range, to the south by the Liverpool Range and on the west by the Warrumbungle Range.

  9. List of regions of Australia - Wikipedia

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    See also the Bureau of Meteorology's Western Australia regions map. [8] The Western Australian system of regions defined by the Government of Western Australia for purposes of economic development administration, which excludes the Perth metropolitan area, is a series of nine regions. The nine defined regions are: Gascoyne; Goldfields–Esperance