Primary Production Industry Support - 2025 Tropical Cyclone Alfred and Associated Rainfall and Flooding

About

This $3.087 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
• providing sugar cane, horticulture and broadacre primary producers with bespoke agronomic solutions to restore cultivation to full production
• mitigating the impacts of events on mental health and build resilience with primary producers and farming communities.

Status

This program is currently under development.

Funding acknowledgement

The package is jointly funded by the Australian and Queensland Governments to support Queensland communities in their recovery from Tropical Cyclone Alfred and Associated Severe Weather, 1 - 16 March 2025 event.

Eligible council areas

• Brisbane City Council
• Bundaberg Regional Council
• Fraser Coast Regional Council
• City of Gold Council
• Gympie Regional Council
• Ipswich City Council
• Lockyer Valley Regional Council
• Logan City Council
• City of Moreton Bay
• Noosa Shire Council
• Redland City Council
• Scenic Rim Regional Council
• Somerset Regional Council
• Southern Downs Regional Council
• Sunshine Coast Regional Council
• Toowoomba Regional Council

Administering agency

Queensland Reconstruction Authority (QRA)

Delivering agency

Department of Primary Industries (DPI)

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