The Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia had successfully secured an $8.8 million soil-survey contract with Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
The Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia had successfully secured an $8.8 million soil-survey contract with Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
The department's overseas consulting arm, AGWEST International, submitted a joint bid for the work with the Brisbane-based GRM International.
The project will apply technologies used to develop AGMAPS, a new WA land resource information package.
Its specifications include extensive soil mapping of the whole of the Emirates, as well as follow-up intensive mapping of selected areas.
The data collected will be fed into a state-of-the-art soil information system to assist in future land use planning.
Agriculture and Food Minister Kim Chance lobbied on behalf of the bid on a recent visit to Abu Dhabi, and said he was delighted with the successful outcome.
"This success is a tribute to the expertise of Western Australians in this field and to the close and trusting relationships that have been developed between WA and the Gulf States," he said.
The project will have input from Department of Agriculture and Food officers with soil survey experience in Kuwait, University of WA soil scientists and private consultants and will take three-and-a-half years to complete.
Local manpower will be trained in the different aspects of soil survey during the process.
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9/05/06
Multi-million dollar contract signed with United Arab Emirates.
Agriculture and Food Minister Kim Chance today welcomed news that the Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia had successfully secured an $8.8million soil-survey contract with Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
AGWEST International, the department's overseas consulting arm, submitted a joint bid for the work with the Brisbane-based GRM International.
Mr Chance, who lobbied on behalf of the bid on a recent visit to Abu Dhabi, said he was delighted with the successful outcome.
"This success is a tribute to the expertise of Western Australians in this field and to the close and trusting relationships that have been developed between WA and the Gulf States," he said.
The project will apply technologies used to develop AGMAPS, a new WA land resource information package.
It will have input from Department of Agriculture and Food officers with soil survey experience in Kuwait, University of WA soil scientists and private consultants and will take three-and-a-half years to complete. Local manpower will be trained in the different aspects of soil survey during the process.
The project specifications include extensive soil mapping of the whole of
the Emirates, as well as follow-up intensive mapping of selected areas.
The data collected will be fed into a state-of-the-art soil information system to assist in future land use planning.
