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The Riverina Story
Barry Gray
其他書名
Water, Wine & Wealth
出版
Rosenberg
, 2009
主題
Business & Economics / Industries / Agribusiness
Cooking / Beverages / Alcoholic / General
Cooking / Beverages / Alcoholic / Wine
History / Australia & New Zealand
History / Social History
Social Science / Customs & Traditions
Social Science / Agriculture & Food
Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / Irrigation
Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / Enology & Viticulture
ISBN
1877058858
9781877058851
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2BldPgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
The Riverina district of Australia, and in particular the Mirrool Irrigation Area, is the only major wine-producing region of Australia which to date has not been written about in depth. The Riverina Story details how a once desolate area of New South Wales became a thriving agricultural region through the addition of managed water resources. Examining this region's grape farms and their contribution to a developing wine industry, the book also addresses many of the serious problems currently being experienced throughout Australia - water conservation, salinity, and declining rural productivity. It shows the potential impact of rising water tables which bring with them destructive levels of salt that destroy the agriculture. It also highlights how this killer of crops was completely eliminated from the Mirrool by a method known as tile drainage, a method by which other irrigation areas may be protected from the devastation wrought by salinity. The Riverina Story is structured around the themes of cultural history, wine history, multiculturalism, rural/regional development, and water conservation - themes that are tied together by reference to the social and historical forces affecting Australia and the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.