Australia: New research allows vegetable growers to see climate impacts

Published 2024년 11월 5일

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The Queensland government has launched a website providing critical temperature thresholds for 12 vegetable crops to help growers in the state adapt to the impacts of climate change. The project, led by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) Qld and horticultural consultant Peter Deuter, aims to help farmers make informed decisions about crop quality, season timing, and potential changes by providing easily understandable summaries and graphs. The website also offers a tool for growers to analyze their past temperature data and relate it to future projections. The initiative is part of the Qld Gov Drought and Climate Adaptation Program, with the data derived from crop physiology and growth research, local temperatures, and historical crop productivity.

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Queensland vegetable and apple growers can peek into their climate future thanks to newly released work from the Queensland government. The Critical Temperature Threshold and Adaptation Strategies for Selected Vegetable Crops project has resulted in a website where the critical temperatures for 12 separate, mostly vegetable crops have been listed. The crops include: Temperature is a critical driver of horticultural product quality, yield, seasonality and income potential. The critical temperature thresholds (CTT) work combined world crop physiology and growth research, with local temperatures and crop productivity history. This crop, location and historical climate data knowledge was then combined with projected future temperature information and brought together graphically in a succinct summary and commentary that teases out how growing the selected crop at each production location will potentially be impacted. Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) Qld senior ...

Source: Farmweekly