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The wine industry in Australia has grown at an impressive rate during recent decades. From 1982 to 2009 the area under vine grew from 60,000 ha to 163,000 ha, the wine grape harvest grew from 500,000 tonnes to 1.73 million tonnes, and Australia’s volume of wine exports grew exponentially from 8 million litres to 764 million litres, becoming the fourth largest exporter by volume behind the traditional wine-producing giants of Italy, France and Spain (Anderson and Nelgen 2011).
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Coelli, T., Sanders, O. (2013). The Technical Efficiency of Wine Grape Growers in the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia. In: Giraud-Héraud, E., Pichery, MC. (eds) Wine Economics. Applied Econometrics Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137289520_12
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