Benchmarking water management in the Australian cotton industry

Abstract

Benchmarking irrigation performance has always been a challenge. As part of the Rural Water Use Efficiency (RWUE3) project the team in, collaboration with the Cotton Catchments Communities CRC, National Certificate of Educational Achievement and the Knowledge Management Phase 2 project, aimed to standardise the irrigation indices in use within the cotton industry. This was achieved through:
- the delivery of training workshops
- access to benchmarking tools
- promotion of benchmarking as a best practice to be adopted on farm.