Wind and sun help break down bacteria, but nutrients in the water replace the need for fertilisers. Well, we have been growing poppies very successfully, oats, irrigation pasture, and we're about to grow lucerne. And the results have been quite extraordinary. Give me some examples. Brighton is an area of high unemployment.
Farms can now put business plans in place, and better times are coming.
Farmer Morris Barwick is itching to start. It's my intention to try and get in some investors to grow olives and orchards, a vineyard. Also on Morris Barwick's agenda is irrigation of a nine-hole golf course and driving range set around a country club he's invested in. The agricultural surveys we've had done show that the area is very good for these applications and we believe it's very exciting and will also be very viable. Even big companies have bought into the scheme.