Drought Conditions
The drought conditions section of the PIRSA website provides technical information and support for individuals, businesses and communities affected by drought conditions including:
- Information on exceptional circumstances support for primary producers and small businesses
- River Murray irrigators toolkit to help manage their water allocation and business through the drought
- Technical support on managing dryland and irrigated properties through drought
- Links to climatic information and more
- Programs and Services including the full range of current drought response activities
- Information on how to take care of your mental health
- Irrigator guidelines for clearing fruit blocks (PDF 88.3 KB)
- Irrigators Managing Business Risk program
- Water budget tool (Excel 7.5 MB)
What are Exceptional Circumstances?
Exceptional Circumstances (EC) are rare and severe events outside those a farmer could normally be expected to manage using responsible farm management strategies.
An EC declaration of a region triggers short-term support for farmers in situations beyond the scope of normal risk management and when the future of significant numbers of farmers in a region is at risk. Support is also available to agriculture-dependent small businesses.
Support for individual producers and small businesses is available in the form of relief payments, managed by Centrelink and interest rate subsidies, managed by each State and Territory government. In South Australia, Primary Industries and Regions SA manage the program. For interest rate subsidies guidelines and applications forms view the the Exceptional Circumstances page.
- Page URL: http://www.pir.sa.gov.au/pirsa/drought
- Page Last Modified: November 8, 2011