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Australia: Hemp crops to battle salinity Transcript ABC Radio National Rural News Friday 28 Nov 2003 Farmers may soon have a new crop to market and a new tool to combat salinity, after legislation was introduced into State Parliament this week to allow for the creation of a commercial hemp industry. Under the bill farmers will be allowed to grow hemp under strict licenced conditions. Ex wheatbelt farmer Athol Chester, from Western Australia, says having had first hand experience with salinity, the crop has major potential in soil stabilisation and erosion control. "At the farm at Cleary, we have no problems with the water alongside the lake, it's away from the lake where the water can't get away. Now this plant it will go down to 9 feet for water, it will use heaps of water. In Queensland they've now got it growing and it grows to 15 feet, but as far as the salt grows, there's heaps and heaps of farmers interested." This is a transcript from the ABC National Rural News that is broadcast daily to all states on ABC Regional Radio's Country Hour and in the city on ABC News Radio.
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