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Resilience and preparedness
trending terms nationally
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BY CHRIS WHEATCROFT CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, RURAL WEST
n 2021 Rural West's thoughts on ‘Resilience, Preparedness and Shared Responsibilities in Drought Support’ have been sought several times as these become a popular topic on the national agenda. f COMING to terms with your situation enables your natural strengths and resilience to be accessed in a strategically effective way.
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WA Grower SPRING 2021
We acknowledge this is never completely simple and suggest encouragement of those factors that consciously support the industry with growers and key stakeholders having a conscious positive intention to deal with adversity (drought, flood, fire, markets, etc). This can be achieved using best practice principles that are readily available to them and used by many enterprises.
There are key management strategies of relevance.
Encouragement of the culture of responsibility is important and avoids those responses and programs that encourage dependency.
Pursuing profitability alongside sustainability.
In saying this, we reflect on what we have observed as key aspects by good operators. WA does appear to be somewhat ahead of the game.
We think growers largely hold and/or access the expertise required on a continual basis.
Access to programs that record operations and expenditures allow growers to measure what they manage.
