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Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia

1962

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Light Lands In Western Australia. 2. Their Nature, Distribution And Climate, George Henry Burvill Jan 1962

Light Lands In Western Australia. 2. Their Nature, Distribution And Climate, George Henry Burvill

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

LIGHT land development for agriculture is a major feature in the story of agriculture in Western Australia. Sixty years ago there was less than one million acres of arable land.

The total area planted to all crops was less than 250 thousand acres and the wheat harvest was less than one million bushels.