CROPPING

Seeds in the desert

<p>THE Pilbara, a region better known for mining these days, could become a cropping haven with a Western Australian government project using surplus mine water to grow irrigated crops sowing its first crop there.</p>

Jessica Strauss
Seeds in the desert

  The Woodie Woodie project's 38ha trial site on Warrawagine station, 190km east of Marble Bar, would be irrigated by mine water from a nearby manganese operation. Agriculture Minister Ken Baston said...

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