Tuesday, 3 August 2021, 9:55 am
Flood-affected farmers in the South Island are being
encouraged to make use of livestock feed support services
funded by the Ministry for Primary Industries
(MPI).
Widespread flooding across the Canterbury, West
Coast, Tasman and Marlborough areas this winter has damaged
pasture and caused losses to supplementary feed.
Since
June, MPI has boosted feed support services and allocated
more than $4.7 million for recovery grants, technical advice
and wellbeing support.
“Several of these regions had
been battling long-term drought prior to the floods which
have put further pressure on feed supplies heading into
calving and lambing,” said MPI’s director of Rural
Press Release – Ministry For Primary Industries Flood-affected farmers in the South Island are being encouraged to make use of livestock feed support services funded by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI). Widespread flooding across the Canterbury, West Coast, Tasman and Marlborough areas this winter …
Flood-affected farmers in the South Island are being encouraged to make use of livestock feed support services funded by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).
Widespread flooding across the Canterbury, West Coast, Tasman and Marlborough areas this winter has damaged pasture and caused losses to supplementary feed.
Since June, MPI has boosted feed support services and allocated more than $4.7 million for recovery grants, technical advice and wellbeing support.
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Minita Taupua Rākau Whakamarumaru
Minister of Agriculture
The
Government is contributing $600,000 to help residents
affected by the weekend’s violent weather with recovery
efforts.
Acting Minister for Emergency Management Kris
Faafoi and Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor have been
in the Buller district this afternoon to assess flood damage
and support the local response effort.
They have
announced an initial contribution of $300,000 towards a
Buller Mayoral Relief Fund and another $100,000 towards a
similar fund for Marlborough. Alongside that the event has
been classified a medium-scale adverse event, unlocking
another $200,000 for flood-affected farmers and growers
across the West Coast and Marlborough