• Yield per hectare is lower; however, low levels of labour enable crops or livestock grazing over a large area. • Irrigation is usually used. • Type B farms are horticulture farms (usually 20 hectares). • They grow permanent crops like grapes, peaches, plums and oranges. • Require more labour per hectare.
• Yields per hectare are high. • They always need irrigation.
10.5.4 Are rural communities sustainable? Rural communities are important to Australia. Many are experiencing a decline because young people are leaving for jobs and education, making some towns struggle to survive. Coober Pedy is a lively multicultural town in northern South Australia, 800 km north of Adelaide. It’s in a very arid area and the traditional custodians of the land are the Antakirinja people. Opal was found there in 1915, and the town grew quickly in the 1960s. It’s known as the ‘Opal Capital of the World’.
FIGURE9 Coober Pedy location map
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