Going beyond normal extension activities to provide irrigators with the information they require when they request it
| Principal Investigator | Mr Graham Harris, Senior Extension Agronomist, Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Graham.Harris@dpi.qld.gov.au |
| Host Organisation | Australian Cotton Cooperative Research Centre |
| Issue or Problem to be Addressed | To date, knowledge from irrigation R, D&E has been somewhat fragmented, with different programs in each state. There is an opportunity to better integrate the efforts of agencies to gain greatest value from the investment in irrigation science and management to deliver outcomes for both production and the environment. |
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| Comment | The project is of considerable interest to the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation due to its potential to embed knowledge management into organisational systems. The nature of the inquiry will be directed at organizational system analysis of at least two participating agencies including at least one major agri-commerce company - and how they each receive, integrate and extend information to irrigators as clients; and how these systems are improved during the research period. The project will detail how the learnings may be transferred to other areas. |
| Research Timeline | September 2008 |
| Research Partners | Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Australian Cotton CRC |
| Proposed Funding | Total budget available from NPSI is $250,000. Considerable cash and in-kind partnerships will result in a budget of approximately $1.25M. |
Stage 1 Final Report - May 2004 (PDF File - 1.3Mb)
Project Media Release September 2003 - Irrigation Know How
Project Media Release November 2003 - Valuable feedback from irrigation project
Story from Irrigation Update 3 - August 2004 - What do we know about knowledge?
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