- Description
- Specifications
The Farm Innovation Fund is a long term, low interest rate loan scheme for NSW farmers for permanent on-farm infrastructure. The Farm Innovation Fund helps farmers to:
- improve farm productivity - reduce risks and improve efficiencies by building fodder and grain storage facilities, sheds, fencing, roadworks and solar power conversions;
- manage adverse seasonal conditions - improve water efficiencies with irrigation systems, cap and piping of bores, new dams, install water tanks and desilting of ground tanks;
- ensure long term sustainability - increase the viability of a farm business and improve pasture and soil health, plant trees for shade and wildlife corridors, eradicate weeds, flood proof property and fence river banks.
This paper provides an overview of the Farm Innovation Fund - New South Wales and has been written under the following headings:
- Introduction to the Farm Innovation Fund
- Administering Entity
- Purpose
- Funding
- Interest
- Term
- Repayment
- Security
- Costs
- Eligibility
- Exclusions
- Applications
- Further Information