Humpty Doo is a small town in Australia's Northern Territory. It is situated just south of the Arnhem Highway, approximately 40 km from Darwin. The town is known for agriculture experiments that have occurred there. In 1954, after some experimentation by CSIRO, a joint Australia-U.S. company called Territory Rice Ltd was put together with a plan to irrigate the subcoastal plain of the Adelaide River in order to commercially produce rice there. The plan was a complete failure due to several factors, including an invasion of various types of hungry animals, soil that was too saline and an insufficient amount of drainage. After failing to find someone else to take up their leases, they gave up the land to the government in 1962.
