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Quick cash from clean beans

MOST OF Australia’s mungbeans are grown south of the tropics in the Darling Downs, central Qld, Burnett and Western slopes NSW. However, mungbean has emerged as a profitable break crop in some areas of northern Queensland, the Northern Territory and WA’s Kimberley, provided you get the agronomy right.

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 CSIRO researcher Dr Stephen Yeates is working on production systems for mungbeans in northern Australia. Photo: Cindy Benjamin

CSIRO researcher Dr Stephen Yeates is working on production systems for mungbeans in northern Australia. Photo: Cindy Benjamin

Townsville-based Dr Stephen Yeates, CSIRO Agriculture, said the largest expansion of mungbean planting has been in the Burdekin area of coastal north Queensland, where mungbean is planted in either late...

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