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Australia’s rice bowl primed for bumper harvest as production lifts tenfold with water
Australia’s rice bowl — the Riverina in southern New South Wales — is expecting to ramp up its production tenfold this season.
Key points:
- SunRice anticipates the 2021 Riverina rice crops will be 450,000 paddy tonnes
- The crop will be 10 times larger than the 2020 rice crop that was impacted by drought and low water allocations
- General security water allocation in the NSW Murray is now 43 per cent and for the Murrumbidgee it is 77per cent
SunRice Group chief executive Rob Gordon tipped the crop would yield 450,000 paddy tonnes come harvest in autumn.
It would be a marked turnaround from earlier in the year when drought and low water allocations in the Murrumbidgee and Murray valleys led to SunRice receiving its second lowest crop on…
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