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Singleton Station's horticultural plan to be assessed at 'highest level' by Environment Protection Authority

Singleton Station in the NT could become home to a major horticultural precinct. (ABC Alice Springs: Samantha Jonscher)

The company hoping to create one of Australia's largest fruit and vegetable farms will now need the Northern Territory's highest level of environmental assessment before it can proceed.

Fortune Agribusiness, which owns Singleton Station, is proposing to develop a horticultural precinct south of Tennant Creek — growing crops on 3,300 hectares using a staged water licence of 40,000 megalitres a year.

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