Funding for VIC landowners with small forestry plantations

Overview

The program helps landowners make their timber resource more valuable. It is open to owners of small farm plantations between 3 and 30 hectares.

Eligible participants can receive a free farm plantation assessment. This will look at the commercial potential of their timber resource. The aim is to identify pathways into timber, firewood and wood-fibre markets.

This program is open to all eligible landowners across Victoria.

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To be eligible, applicants must:

• own the land on which an eligible plantation is located or have the rights to harvest and sell the plantation’s wood resources
• allow an on-site visit to the plantation for the assessors to undertake the assessment
• be willing (and declare that any plantation managers working on the plantation are willing) to participate in an interview with the assessors about the plantation and assessment process
• maintain current public liability insurance with a minimum of $10 million coverage per occurrence.