Funding for primary producers impacted by NSW East Coast severe weather

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, you must:

• be a primary producer
• derive at least 50% of your gross income from the primary production enterprise
• contribute a part of your labour to the primary production enterprise
• hold an Australian business number (ABN) and have held that ABN at the time of the disaster
• have a primary production enterprise located in the defined area for the eligible disaster that has suffered direct damage as a result of the eligible disaster
• have been engaged in carrying on the primary production enterprise when affected by the eligible disaster
• intend to re-establish the primary production enterprise.