Luke Hartsuyker (Cowper, National Party, Deputy Manager of Opposition Business in the House) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That this House:

(1) notes:

(a) that the abnormally wet weather in late 2010 and early 2011 devastated the sugar industry on the NSW north coast; and

(b) the major impact of this weather on the sugar industry on the NSW north coast;

(2) acknowledges that many farmers planted crops twice but lost both as a result of the flood events of December 2010 and January 2011;

(3) recognises that as a result, there are currently 6000 hectares of sugar cane crops which remain implanted in Northern NSW;

(4) notes the replanting proposal put forward by Canegrowers NSW; and

(5) calls on the:

(a) Commonwealth and NSW Governments to increase the level of assistance provided to farmers from $15 000 to $25 000, similar to the level of assistance provided to Queensland and Victorian farmers; and

(b) Government to respond to the proposal made by Canegrowers NSW as a matter of urgency.

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