Making Queensland’s agricultural sector #1
This vision will only be achieved by addressing the challenges and taking advantage of the opportunities presented, which requires deliberate and strategic action. The right policy settings and effective collaboration between industry, government and community are required to reach the sector’s full potential.
QFF has identified five major policy areas to achieve this aim including making Queensland the place to invest; implementing smart regulation to realise opportunities; maintaining, building new and building back better; managing risk and protecting; and ensuring the future of our people and regional communities. We need a government that will guarantee farmers fair production costs, create and foster an environment that promotes productivity and resilience, and ensure the building blocks and infrastructure that underpin the sector are in place.
In the next Parliament, the government must work alongside industry to achieve our vision for agriculture, or we risk deterioration of our sector, rather than strengthening this critical economy support structure.