Sugarcane is the second largest agricultural export in Queensland and covers 400,000 ha in the Great Barrier Reef catchment. Sugarcane growing contributes 42% of the total dissolved inorganic nitrogen load and is the dominant source of pesticides delivered to the Great Barrier Reef. Several land management practices in sugarcane areas […]

Banana growing and horticulture cover 0.2% of the Great Barrier Reef catchment, and contribute around 1% of the total fine sediment load, 1% of total exports of dissolved inorganic nitrogen, and large amounts of pesticides to the Great Barrier Reef. Much less is known about the effectiveness of management practices