Primary Production Industry Support Package - 2025 North and Far North Queensland Tropical Low

About

This $7.1 million Primary Production Industry Support fund assists the Department of Primary Industries to tailor holistic support to primary producers in activated LGAs. The funds will support medium-term recovery and enhance the long-term resilience of the primary producer industry by:

• providing primary producers with independent, impartial and professional help to address financial stressors of the impact of a disaster event
• supporting primary producers by helping them to recover from the impacts of the event and to build resilience to the impact of cumulative disaster events and better understand the risk and impact of disaster to their farm business
• provide sugar cane, horticulture and broadacre primary producers with bespoke agronomic solutions to restore cultivation to full production
• mitigate the impacts of events on mental health and build resilience with primary producers and farming communities.

Eligibility

Eligible council areas include: 

• Burdekin Shire Council
• Cairns Regional Council
• Cassowary Coast Regional Council
• Charters Towers Regional Council
• Flinders Shire Council
• Hinchinbrook Shire Council
• Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council
• Tablelands Regional Council
• Townsville City Council
• Yarrabah Shire Council  

Administering agency

Queensland Reconstruction Authority (QRA).

Delivery agency

 Department of Primary Industries (DPI).

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