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Media Release |
3 September 2004
Meetings to help crop growers with Agricultural Recovery applications
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is holding public meetings for crop growers affected by February’s flood event to explain the claims procedure for seeking recovery assistance to re-establish their crops, and to assist with applications.
The meetings will cover the details of the criteria and how actual costs will
be used to establish assistance, rather than standard unit rates.
MAF’s Programme Administrator for the Agricultural Recovery Programme, Lynette
Wharfe, says initial details of the recovery programme released showed that
assistance was to be calculated on standard unit rates. Now they will be based
on actual production costs, in response to grower concerns about how standard
unit rates would work.
“The meetings will cover just how the details will work. Growers will be given information and a ‘Cost of Production’ template to be completed. They will also be given any assistance with completing the forms they require,” says Lynette Wharfe.
The meetings are being held at Opiki and Feilding as follows:
7 pm Tuesday September 7 – “The Barn”, Tane Street, Opiki
7 pm Wednesday September 8 – Denbigh Hotel, Manchester Street, Feilding
For further information, contact:
Lynette Wharfe, Programme Administrator, Agricultural Recovery Programme
Ph: 04 474 4149 or 027 6206379
The Crop Re-establishment Details and Cost of Production template will shortly
be available online at:
www.maf.govt.nz/mafnet/rural-nz/emergency-management/2004-floods/
