Loans for QLD primary production businesses to support drought recovery activities

Overview

This program provides loans to assist producers with the costs of activities improving drought readiness and resilience, including:

• improving on-farm water infrastructure
• implementing grain storage
• reasonable freight components to purchase and install equipment or infrastructure
• contractor costs or non-salaried employees’ costs directly associated with implementing the drought preparedness project
• removing unviable crops, plants or trees and  purchasing and planting new seed, seedlings or trees
• purchasing and vaccinating new stock or drenching new stock.

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To be eligible, applicants must:

• demonstrate at least one person in the primary production business is a primary producer
• demonstrate that the project/s and activities identified in the Farm Business Resilience Plan will improve the drought readiness and recovery prospects of the primary production business
• have prospects for viability and the ability to service the loan.