This Bill will introduce significant restrictions on important farm inputs.

It will require landowners to keep onerous bureaucratic records under threat of fines, he says.

Mr Cripps accused the Government of failing to base the proposed legislation on sound science.

"The Qld Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability, Kate Jones, basically went through a process of slandering North Queensland farmers in her second reading speech introducing the bill into parliament," he said.

"The Minister is obviously ignorant of research, such as that reported today by Dr Peter Ridd, of James Cook University, that rejects her claims."

Mr Cripps said he would work with rural industry stakeholders to strongly oppose the bill.

"This is simply the last instalment of the paying off of a political debt to the Greens in return for preferences at the last state election," he said.

"The bill threatens landowners with $7500 fines for incorrectly keeping records required by the Government or incorrectly applying fertilisers at rates proscribed by the Government.

"Our farmers are busy producing quality food and fibre products without having to do paper work for the government or taking orders about how to farm their land."

Mr Cripps said the bill would apply to the Wet Tropics, Burdekin and Mackay/Whitsunday catchments and would introduce a range of controls and restrictions on the use of important agricultural chemicals that threatened the viability and productivity of rural industries.

"With the agricultural sector one of the few sectors still performing relatively strongly during the current economic downturn, notwithstanding the punitive policies of the Government, now is not the time to be placing additional burdens on farm businesses," he said.