A company planning to build a massive Central Australian fruit and vegetable farm has been handed the biggest water licence ever granted in the Northern Territory. Fortune Agribusiness wants to build a 3,500-hectare irrigated horticulture project at Singleton cattle station, about 380km north of Alice Springs. It applied to the NT government in July to extract 40,000 megalitres of underground water per year, causing concern among native title holders. A company planning to build a massive Central Australian fruit and vegetable farm has been handed the biggest water licence ever granted in the Northern Territory (stock image) The Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security on Thursday approved a 30-year licence to extract the water, saying Fortune would have to comply with strict controls.