horticulture

Horticulture

Horticulture water quality improvement grants

Large grants

Maximise your productivity and product quality. Funding is available for horticultural growers for practice changes that will improve water quality through the reduction of nutrients, sediments and pesticides leaving farms. These are some examples of how current farm practices can be improved, while increasing farm efficiency:

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Funding for Growers

Horticulture

Sugar

Grains

Other funding opportunities

Landholders in Black River, Hervey’s Range, Rupertswood, Jensen, Alice River, Brookhill, Oak Valley, Julago, Nome and Alligator Creek may be eligible for up to $2,000 in funding to remove weeds and improve native habitat through our Healthy Habitat project.

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Coastal Agriculture

Water Quality and Sugar


NQ Dry Tropics has a number of publications to help cane farmers improve water quality on their farms.

Reef Rescue ABCD Framework Brochure - Sugar

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Publications by Topic

Animals

Coastal Birds of the Burdekin Dry Tropics

Freshwater Fishes of the Burdekin Dry Tropics

What am I, Native Frog or Cane Toad?

Woodland Birds of the Burdekin Dry Tropics

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Publications by Title

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Annual Report 2009/2010

Annual Community Report 2008/2009

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Funding for Graziers

Water quality improvement grants

Applications are now open. Maximise your productivity with our water quality improvement grants. We can help you with funding to carry out gully and river fencing, fencing to land types and erosion control which not only improve your property but also benefit your wider community. Improving ground cover and keeping your soil on your property means your place will be more resilient during the dry season.

Funding is available for practices that reduce nutrients, sediments and pesticides leaving farms.

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Semi-rural landholders

Healthy Habitat funding and support

If you live in Black River, Hervey’s Range, Rupertswood, Jensen, Alice River, Brookhill, Oak Valley, Julago, Nome and Alligator Creek you may be eligible to receive up to $2,000 to improve your property through our Healthy Habitat project.  If you’ve already received money from the program, you will be eligible to apply again.

We will fund on-ground initiatives such as weed and pest animal management, planting of native vegetation, fire management and more. Just ask us if your activity is eligible for funding!

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Water Quality and Horticulture

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Horticulture

Each year NQ Dry Tropics invites expressions of interest from horticulture producers that improve their practices. Funding is available to help with these improvements.

Applications have just closed for this financial year’s round of funding. For more information on future rounds please contact our office.

How does it work?
Producers will be encouraged to adopt best management practices, through the provision of technical support and financial incentives.

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Funding and support

Helping you look after your backyard

NQ Dry Tropics funds a range of environmental activities within the Burdekin dry tropics region. We currently offer funding and support for the following groups:

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