National Landcare Program

$220 000

$68 000

Nil

National Rivercare Program

$69 000

$45 000

$17 000

Farm Forestry Program

Nil

Nil

$43 000

Forest Industry Structural Adjustment Package

Nil

Nil

$506 683

Pork Producer Exit Program

$90 000

Nil

Nil

PorkBiz

$26 471

$4 125

$3 275

National Pork Industry Development Program

$105 000

$4 494

Nil

Sugar Industry Infrastructure Program

Nil

Nil

$29 555

Supermarket to Asia - New Industries Development Program

Nil

$85 000

Nil

Backing Australia's Ability - New Industries Development Program

Nil

Nil

$37 000

Farm Innovation Program

Nil

$189 000

$541 950

Rural Financial Counselling Service

$46 010

$46 010

$61,347

National Landcare Program

Baralaba

Employ a part time project officer to promote the Landcare ethic throughout the community.

1999-2000 - $31 933

National Landcare Program

Lower Mary River catchment

Improve future resource management strategies and actions in the lower Mary River Catchment through land resource assessment.

1999-2000 - $61 020

National Landcare Program

Kilkivan

To encourage and promote the use of sustainable land and resource management practices through education, publicity, information dissemination, training skills, transfer and practical working examples.

1999-2000 - $30 000

National Landcare Program

Callide-Kroombit catchment

To employ a coordinator to continue the group and community support role and to help to develop and maintain group projects. To aim at reducing the siltation and degradation of creeks in the Callide-Kroombit system by targeting side gully erosion and degraded areas of native scrub. To encourage the development of a more robust pasture in the area to decrease the flow of water and to aid in water penetration at higher levels therefore reducing overland flow.

1999-2000 - $46 9602000-2001 - $42 800

National Landcare Program

Burnett catchment

To support catchment management planning, strategic planning and property planning for the sustainable use and management of South-East Queensland lands. Provide land resource information and decision support systems.

1999-2000 - $50 0002000-2001 - $25 000

National Rivercare Program

Gayndah

The aim of this project is to revegetate a 400m section of the Burnett River bank adjacent to the Gayndah township. Dry vine forest was one widespread through much of the district. With continued clearing for agricultural use only remnants remain and many of the species are now classified as rare and threatened. This is to be the first stage of a wider program of regeneration within the Central and North Burnett subcatchment.

2001-2002 - $17 300

National Rivercare Program

Upper Burnett catchment

To demonstrate effective methods of restoring native riparian vegetation in the Burnett watercourses. Removal of exotic vegetation and monitoring results.

1999-2000 - $44 5002000-2001 - $44 500

National Rivercare Program

Mount Perry

To implement priority elements of the Oxley Creek Integrated Catchment Management Strategy.

1999-2000 - $24 000

Farm Forestry Program

Dawson Valley

The project will investigate timber cropping as a viable alternative or supplement to, more established rural incomes. The trials will also indicate which methods and species are most suited to this area. Flow-on effects will be a more vital community, greater protection against salinity, and as we are targeting local species, local ecosystems will receive a boost.

2001-2002 - $43 100

Forest Industry Structural Adjustment Package

Tiaro

Sawmill improvements

$333 000 (total grant) (note - balance of project grant monies due to be paid in 02-03 financial year)

Forest Industry Structural Adjustment Package

Maryborough

Sawmill improvements

$257 193 (total grant) (note - balance of project grant monies due to be paid in 02-03 financial year)

Forest Industry Structural Adjustment Package

Maryborough

Sawmill improvements

$444 112 (total grant) (note - balance of project grant monies due to be paid in 02-03 financial year)

Forest Industry Structural Adjustment Package

Wondai

Sawmill improvements (stage 1)

$112 000 (stage 1 - total grant) (note - balance of project grant monies due to be paid in 02-03 financial years)

Pork Producer Exit Program

Wowan

Pork producer assisted to exit the industry

1999-2000 - $45 000

Pork Producer Exit Program

Murgon

Pork producer assisted to exit the industry

1999-2000 - $45 000

PorkBiz

Murgon

Pork producers helped to attend business skills training workshops and have on-farm consultations.

$15 148

PorkBiz

Biloela

Pork producers helped to attend business skills training workshops and have on-farm consultations.

$16 323

PorkBiz

Goomeri

Pork producer funded to have an on-farm consultation.

2001-02 - $1 200

PorkBiz

Hivesville

Pork producer funded to have an on-farm consultation.

2001-02 - $1 200

National Pork Industry Development Program

South Burnett region

Funding provided to develop a pork market alliance in the South Burnett region.

1999-2000 - $105 000

National Pork Industry Development Program

South Burnett region

Funding provided to pork alliance to attend negotiations skills seminar.

2000 - 2001 - $4 494

Supermarket to Asia - New Industries Development Program

Murgon

Organic Milk Production

2000-2001 - $85 000

Backing Australia's Ability - New Industries Development Program

Hervey Bay

Vermi-composting service

2001-2002 - $37 000

Farm Innovation Program #

Wondai

Organic odourless soil conditioner developed mainly from pig waste. It is unique in both process and product in that it is comprised of pellets that are user friendly from both an environmental and industrial perspective.

$189 000

Farm Innovation Program #

Hervey Bay

Construct a hatchery to produce spawns of mud crab and sea cucumber at a single facility.

$119 020

Farm Innovation Program #

Mundubbera

Mandarin packaging and grading. The grader uses camera and computer software to identify and sort mandarins according to defects, colour, diameter, volume, weight and density.

$361 830

Farm Innovation Program #

Wondai

Adoption of the EliSmart Farm System - an electronic milk metering system that includes electronic cow identification, automatic feeding and drafting, measurement of milk flow, conductivity and temperatures for individual cows (the two applicants are part of a group application from 14 farmers)

$26 810

Farm Innovation Program #

Wondai

$34 290

Rural Financial Counselling Service

Located in Mundubbera, servicing the local government areas of Mundubbera, Gayndah, Biggenden, Chinchilla, Eidsvold, Perry and Monto.

To provide a rural financial counselling service to primary producers, small rural business and fishing enterprises in financial crisis, and in need of financial counselling assistance

$153,367