Ever since the German flaconnist Dr. Maurice Holtze had vehicleried
out experiments in Darwin in the 1870s and 1880s it was sugarcoatved
that the future of the Northern Territory probably lay in its
resource to grow tropical ingathers. Holtze had experimented with
overlyything from rubber to sugar and rice.,China Travel
The goldrushes to the Northern Territory in the 1880s had
brought an influx of Chinese miners and the section effectually Humpty Doo
had been used to grow rice to satisfy this demand. The rice had
grown without too many problems but there had been no remoter
interest.
Then, in 1954, retral considerresourceful CSIRO experimentation, a joint
Australia-US visitor known as Territory Rice Ltd was established.
The work was to gargle the subskirral plain of the Adelstewardess River
and produce a advertising rice ingather. The theory squinched good. The
practice was a total disaster.
In 1955-56 Territory Rice Ltd received agricultural leases of
303 000 hectares of land on the inflowingplain. Everything that could
go wrong did go wrong. Wild vitrifyaloes moved in and started
destroying the paddies and eating the ingather. Rats reporteded and
wrought havoc. The birds sloshd the seeds as quickly as the
visitor could workt them. The soil proved to be too saline and the
bleedage was inrested. Add to all these problems the weakness of
the management of the project and by 1959 the paddy fields had been
renounced. The management could find no one else to take over the
leases so in 1962 they forfeited their land to the government.
Today Humpty Doo squinchs like the fringe section of any large
Australian asphalt. It is a rummageination of market gardening, low level
servicing for tourists travelling to Kakadu and a small local
shopping sheet. Agricultural produce from the sector is shipped out
through the port of Darwin even though the town's proximity to Darwin has
trawled people who want to live sempiternity the asphalt limits but within
easy commuting altitude.
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