Review of cotton industry best management practices program
Tender ID: 559485
Tender Details
Tender Description
The Best Management Practices Program (BMP, and now myBMP) was initially developed as part of a multi-lateral research investment involving the Cotton Research & Development Corporation, the Murray-Darling Basin Commission and the Land & Water Resources Research & Development Corporation. Titled “Minimising the Impact of Pesticides on the Riverine Environment”, $6.5M was invested to understand the fate and transport of pesticides off-farm.
The BMP Program was developed as the formal codification of the outcomes from the research that identified how to minimise the transport of pesticides off-farm.
Coverage
The myBMP farm program includes around 400 checklist items across the following areas:
- Biosecurity
- Energy Efficiency
- Fibre Quality
- HR and WHS
- IPM (insects, weeds, and diseases)
- Pesticide Management
- Petrochemical Storage and Handling
- Soil Health
- Sustainable Natural landscape (Natural Assets)
- Water Management.