Drought, technology, not water savings to blame for job losses

John Ellicott
Updated June 21 2018 - 10:33am, first published 10:05am
Water savings and on farm efficiencies and drought have put the muzzle on jobs growth on farms in the Murray-Darling Basin.
Water savings and on farm efficiencies and drought have put the muzzle on jobs growth on farms in the Murray-Darling Basin.

There’s been a massive loss of on farm jobs in southern NSW in the last 18 years, according to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority – but it says the basin plan is not to blame.

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John Ellicott

John Ellicott

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