On-Farm Emergency Water Infrastructure Rebate Scheme SA
Rebates for SA drought affected primary producers
Last Updated: 14 October 2020
On-Farm Emergency Water Infrastructure Rebate Scheme SA
The On-Farm Emergency Water Infrastructure Rebate Scheme provides drought affected primary producers with a rebate to help with the costs of purchasing and installing water infrastructure.
Applications close 30 March 2021 or when the funding allocation is exhausted, whichever occurs first.
What do you get?
A 30% rebate of up to $30,000.
Who is this for?
SA drought affected primary producers.
Overview
Water infrastructure rebates are available for primary producers who can demonstrate a critical water need for livestock or permanent horticulture plantings resulting from current seasonal conditions.
Eligible activities include:
Livestock
- pipes and fittings
- water storage devices (such as tanks and troughs) associated with stock watering
- water pumps
- de-silting of existing dams, where you can demonstrate that the property does not have access to groundwater
- drilling of stock groundwater bores and associated equipment/power supply such as generators, desalinisation plants
- materials or equipment necessary to install the above excluding purchase of machinery
- any freight component to purchase and install the equipment
- professional installation costs to install the water infrastructure
Horticulture
- drilling of horticulture groundwater bores and associated equipment/power supply such as generators, desalinisation plants
- de-silting of existing dams, where you can demonstrate that the property does not have access to groundwater
What are the eligibility criteria?
To be eligible, you must:
- be a property owner, share-farmer or lessee in the grazing industry
- operate as a sole trader, partnership, trust or private company and trade agricultural products
- own a property which is located in one of the eligible areas
- not have gross off farm assets of more than $5 million
- earn more than 50% of your gross income from your farm business under normal seasonal circumstances, or
- have commenced your farm business between 1 July 2015 and 30 June 2018 and derive 50% of your gross income from the farm business within three years of the date of applying
- have purchased new eligible water infrastructure for livestock or existing permanent horticultural plantings between 1 July 2019 and 30 June 2020, or
- have undertaken repairs or upgrades to eligible existing water infrastructure for livestock or existing permanent horticultural plantings between 1 July 2019 and 30 June 2020
How do you apply?
Find out more about eligibility and how to apply at On-Farm Emergency Water Infrastructure Rebate Scheme.
