Charles Darwin University will research water use patterns and the efficiency of the Territory’s rain-fed cotton crops in a partnership with the Industry, Tourism and Trade Department and the industry itself.

The university’s Research Institute for Northern Agriculture tropical broadacre cropping systems Professor Stephen Xu said they would be “pooling resources” with the department in a three year study where a PhD student would work with farmers, and gather research, as well as real-time data about rain-fed cotton in the Katherine and Douglas-Daly regions.

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