Funding for QLD horticulturalists

Overview

Funding may be used for:

• the purchase cost of permanent protective netting, throw over netting and associated infrastructure such as poles (either new infrastructure or replacement of existing infrastructure that has been damaged or requires replacing)
• costs associated with engaging contractors to install the permanent protective netting and associated infrastructure
• costs directly associated with engaging contractors to conduct preparatory activities directly necessary for the installation of permanent protective netting (e.g. costs of removing existing netting).

Wine grape plantings are ineligible for this program.

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To be eligible, you must be a primary producer and:

• protective netting must be purchased and installed after 16 December 2019 for apple and pear crops and after 14 December 2021 for all other horticultural crops
• the land on which netting is to be installed must have an established use of horticultural production prior to 16 December 2019 for apple and pear crops, and prior to 14 December 2021 for all other horticultural crops
• protective netting must be purchased and installed to increase horticultural productivity, by reducing the impacts of adverse weather events or animal predation, and to reduce water usage.