Territory Stories

Alice Springs Rural Review

Details:

Title

Alice Springs Rural Review

Creator

Northern Territory. Department of Resources

Collection

Alice Springs Rural Review; E-Journals; PublicationNT; Alice Springs Rural Review

Date

2010-12-01

Location

Alice Springs

Notes

Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).; This publication contains many links to external sites. These external sites may no longer be active.; Includes : Pastoral Market Update November 2010; Arid Zone Research Institute; AZRI, Alice Springs

Language

English

Subject

Agriculture; Alice Springs Region; Periodicals

Publisher name

Northern Territory Government

Place of publication

Alice Springs

Series

Alice Springs Rural Review

Volume

V 44 (9-12) December 2010

File type

application/pdf

ISSN

0813-9148

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Copyright owner

Northern Territory Government

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/227332

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/676011

Page content

ALICE SPRINGS RURAL REVIEW, Page 17 of 20 Mongolian government officials visit Alice Springs Pieter Conradie, Regional Manager Pastoral Production, DoR, Alice Springs A group of eight senior government officials from Mongolia recently visited the Desert Knowledge Precinct and Arid Zone Research Institute as part of a World Bank funded Sustainable Livelihoods project. This project organises study visits to New Zealand and Australia as they have extensive experience in sustainable land management and invest considerable resources in research of sustainable pasture and livestock management systems. In these two countries sustainable land management plays an important role in livelihood security for different farming communities for Indigenous and European farmers. The Mongolian government is looking into developing similar systems for their pastoralists. The visitors were treated to a full two day program, with a number of presentations given at the Desert Knowledge Business and Innovation Centre as well as at AZRI. Although the much anticipated visit to Old Man Plains research station had to be cancelled due to wet weather, Chris Materne and Pieter Conradie from AZRI and Andy Bubb showed the visitors different vegetation types around the Alice Springs and Simpsons Gap area. A closer look at a road train was also a highlight. The unexpected cold weather did not deter the visitors from a good look around as temperatures in Mongolia vary between -40 and +40 degrees Celsius. RIGHT: Chris Materne, Senior Rangeland Scientist, discussing the value of quality grass. ABOVE: Enjoying the view from Anzac hill