REIMBURSING THE FUTURE:

An evaluation of motivational, voluntary, price-based, property-right, and regulatory incentives for the conservation of biodiversity

PART 2 - Appendices

A report by M.D. Young, N. Gunningham, J. Elix, J. Lambert, B. Howard, P. Grabosky and E. McCrone
Prepared by CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology, the Australian Centre for Environmental Law, and Community Solutions
January 1996

Biodiversity Series, Paper No. 9
Biodiversity Unit

Table 2.2.6 Selected Inputs and Gross Margins for Irrigated Crops

Inputs                      Winter Crops               Summer Crops           

Wheat   Canola            Cotton   Soybeans       Maize   

Water ($/ha)         35      36                72       81             81     

Insecticide ($/ha)    0      26               395       24             22     

Herbicide ($/ha)     39      47               235      109             38     

Fertiliser ($/ha)   126      90                91       34            149     

Gross Margin        160     388               752      430            498     
($/ha)

This measure of allocated usage may not however provide the best indication of the extent of water usage because there has been considerable increase in the use of off-allocation water (Kingsford, pers com.).