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Project: Cost Benefit Analysis of a GWRDC Soil and Water Initiative Project Cluster (2009)
Client: Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation (GWRDC)
Summary: A cost benefit analysis of the GWRDC Soil and Water Initiative (SWI) project cluster. The SWI project cluster comprises 12 individual projects in which GWRDC has invested or will continue to invest over the period 2004/05 to 2009/10. The scope of costs and benefits, data sources/assumptions and results of the CBA, including key indicators and sensitivity analysis, were detailed for each project within the cluster.
The component projects are:
- Soil/water initiative management project (project number CSM 04/01);
- Vineyard water use; adapting to change (project number CSL 04/02);
- Root-zone management options to minimise off-site impacts of nutrients and pesticides (project number CSL 06/02);
- Optimising canopy function to increase yield while maintaining wine quality with efficient use of resources (project number CSP 05/01);
- Optimising irrigation for different cultivars (project number CSP 05/02);
- Optimising the recovery of vine performance following irrigation during extended periods of water deficit (project number CUT 05/01);
- Managing soil and water to target quality and reduce environmental impact (project number DPI 04/04);
- Root zone water, salinity and nutrient management under precision irrigation (project number LWA 05/01);
- Long-term sustainability of precision irrigation (project number LWA 05/02);
- Soil management for yield and quality (project number SAR 04/02);
- Managing grapevines in variable climates: the impact of temperature (project number SAR 05/01); and
- Root physiology and vine performance (project number UA 04/03).
The results of the analysis are confidential and have not been published by GWRDC. Contact Troy Fischer at GWRDC on (08) 8273 0500 for further details.