Funding for primary producers affected by Tropical Cyclone Alfred severe weather event

Overview

Funding may be used to contribute to the costs of clean-up, reinstatement activities and emergency measures, including:

• hiring or leasing equipment or materials to clean premises, property or equipment
• removing and disposing of debris, damaged goods, materials including injured or dead livestock
• repairing or replacing fencing and/or other essential property infrastructure
• purchasing and transporting fodder or feed for livestock
• replacing livestock
• replace lost or damaged plants, salvage crops, repair or restore fields
• replacing, reconditioning or replacing essential plant or equipment
• maintaining the health of livestock
• paying additional wages to an employee to assist with clean-up work (above and beyond normal wage expenditure, i.e. day-to-day staffing)
• repairing buildings (except dwellings, unless they are used for staff accommodation).

Check if you can apply

To be eligible, applicants must:

• be a primary producer or have a primary production enterprise and operate as a sole trader, partnership, trust or private company in NSW
• be a primary producer or have a primary production enterprise and hold a Class A Aquaculture Permit authorising an aquaculture lease area of at least 1 hectare
• have an Australian business number (ABN) that was registered at the time of the event
• be located in the defined disaster are and have suffered direct damage as a result of this event
• be responsible for essential repair and replacement costs following direct damage to the primary production enterprise
• intend to re-establish or continue the primary production within the same location or LGA
• have earned a minimum of 50% of total gross income and $20,000 from eligible primary production in one of the last 5 financial years or demonstrate that your business would do so in the ordinary course of business.