The Industry Recovery and Resilience Officer (IRRO) program is helping primary producers recover from the 2021-2022 flooding and cyclone events in Southern, Central, Southeast and Western Queensland.

IRRO’s are supporting agribusiness to develop Flood Management Plans to build resilience and identify strategies to mitigate farm business risk.

IRROs:

• Provide support for short, medium, and longer-term recovery need, including flood mitigation resources for you and your staff.

• Develop industry-specific, risk-based, on-farm Flood Management Plans, and connect you to technical advice.

• Share information and provide links to existing support and services available to your business.

To be eligible for assistance your property must be located in one of the defined disaster areas:

Natural Disasters:

• Central Southern and Western Queensland Rainfall and Flooding event (10 November – 3 December 2021)

• Ex-Tropical Cyclone Seth (29 December 2021 – 10 January 2022)

• Southeast Queensland Rainfall and Flooding event (22 February – 5 April 2022)

• Southern Queensland Flooding event (6 May – 20 May 2022)

Activated Local Government Areas:

• Balonne Shire Council

• Banana Shire Council

• Brisbane City Council

• Bundaberg Regional Council

• Cherbourg Aboriginal Shire

• Fraser Coast Regional Council

• Gold Coast City Council

• Goondiwindi Regional Council

• Gympie Regional Council

• Ipswich City Council

• Lockyer Valley Regional Council

• Logan City Council

• Moreton Bay Regional Council

• Noosa Shire Council

• North Burnett Regional Council

• South Burnett Regional Council

• Redland Bay City Council

• Scenic Rim Regional Council

• Somerset Regional Council

• Southern Downs Regional Council

• Sunshine Coast Regional Council

• Toowoomba Regional Council

• Western Downs Regional Council

A Flood Management Plan assists your business to identify the specific risks associated with flooding (eg. mapping of flood scenarios, seasonal agricultural production activities, management practices and current infrastructure) to outline new actions to respond to those risks and recover from these events.

To get started on your Flood Management Plan, or Farm Business Resilience Plan, please contact an Industry Recovery & Resilience Officers

The Primary Producer Flood Management Grant Scheme offers rebates to eligible primary producers of up to $7,500 towards the costs of professional advice to improve resilience to flooding and high rainfall.

The rebate aims to help primary producers offset all or part of the cost of eligible professional advice to improve the resilience of their primary production enterprise to flooding and high rainfall and develop a Flood Management Plan.

For more detailed information and eligibility criteria, visit: www.qrida.qld.gov.au/program/primary-producer-flood-management-grants

Applications close 30 September 2024 or when available funds have been allocated.

There are five IRRO’s currently hosted by industry organisations:

Growcom

Lene Knudsen
0429 000 179
lknudsen@qfvg.com.au

Queensland Farmers’ Federation

Eloise Cosgrove
0409 265 427
eloise@qff.org.au

Julia Jurgs
0416 951 450
julia@qff.org.au

The Burnett Mary Regional Group (BMRG) has also engaged two IRROs to support primary producers in the Burnett Mary Region. You can contact them via 07 4181 2999 or admin@bmrg.org.au