Land management for banana farmers

Learn how to adopt farming practices that reduce soil, nutrient and pesticide run-off.

Protect reef catchments

• Use our property search tool to find out if your farming business is within the Reef catchment and subject to the Reef protection regulations.
• Read about best practice for producers in the reef catchment areas.
• Find out about grants and funding to support producers in the Reef catchments.
• Learn from other farmers trialling new farming practices.
• Watch case studies about innovative farming practices.

Improve soil health

• Managing soil erosion (PDF, 1MB)
• Nurturing the soil and neighbouring wetlands on a banana farm in the Wet Tropics (PDF, 600KB)
• Banana root and soil health user's manual outlines simple tests to measure soil health using an on-farm testing kit
• Erosion and sediment control guide (PDF, 2.8MB)
• Fertiliser placement guide (PDF, 1.2MB)

Reduce nutrient losses and sediment run-off

• The Best Practice Management Environmental Guideline provides specific banana industry content and best practices to reduce sediment and nutrient run-off
• Grassed inter-rows in bananas in the Wet Tropics region reduced the cost of fertiliser application and reduced sediment and water loss
• Monitoring nitrogen losses from bananas in the Wet Tropics region
• Installation of a sediment trap at Boolabah Farms (PDF, 4MB)