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Horticultural farmers in New South Wales want to be included in the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. They hope they will be able to sell the tonnes of carbon stored in their permanent plantings, like macadamia trees.
However, there’s a catch.
Horticulture Council Australia chief executive Kris Newton says many growers don’t realise that horticulture plantings cannot be used as a carbon offset under the current Kyoto rules.
“Unfortunately it’s not just macadamia trees, for horticulture it is avocados, mangoes and olive and citrus and wine and table grape vines and any other kind of permanent planting,” she says.
“The current Kyoto rules specify that it needs to be a tree that has been in the ground for 100 years.”
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