Sugarcane in a perennial crop harvested annually over a six-month season from June to December. Each crop cycle consists of a plant crop followed by several ratoon crops. Time of harvest influences both commercial cane sugar (CCS) content in the current season and yield in the following season....

Environmental weeds are plants that invade natural ecosystems and are considered to be a serious threat to nature conservation. Environmental weeds have been implicated in the extinction of several indigenous plant species, and they also threaten ecosystem stability and functional complexity....

The Namoi river catchment in northern NSW is an important irrigation region. Water resources in this region are increasingly stressed. Both surface and groundwater supplies are overallocated in many areas of the catchment. Management options to reduce allocations in line with available supply...

Concern over the appearance of algal blooms in Summer months on Australian waterways has been increasing in recent years. Some algae are toxic to humans and livestock when ingested. To avoid the dangers of contaminated drinking water, costs must be incurred, either by eliminating nutrient...

Scotch Broom is a serious environmental weed in Barrington Tops National Park and the surrounding areas. It poses a significant threat of reducing the diversity of flora in invaded ecosystems and generating a false understorey. It also harbours feral pigs, which perpetuate the cycle of...

In many areas of developing countries, economic and institutional factors often combine to give farmers incentives to clear forests and repeatedly plant food crops without sufficiently replenishing the soils. These activities lead to large-scale land degradation and contribute to global warming...

In Bangladesh, climatic change is likely to impact significantly upon surface and groundwater availability, as well as in other countries. The population of Bangladesh is projected to be double the current 2010 level by 2050. Demand for water will rise with the increasing demand for rice. This...