2022/23 ANNUAL PLAN PROGRESS REPORT – Q4

Stronger Councils, Stronger Region

Strategic Intention

Annual Plan Action

NRM Aboriginal Traineeship Program

Activity this quarter

• Finalising last 2 units of CEM course.

• Fox shortlisted for the Tasmanian Training AwardsAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student of the Year.

• Assisting in GFC Recovery project on-ground works completion with landholders and final sign-off.

Status

Regional Agriculture Landcare Facilitator (RALF)

• Delivered workshop session for TasTAFE apprentices ‘Introduction to plant diseases. ’

• Delivered workshop session for TasTAFE apprentices ‘Plant diseases of a pasture-based system and case studies of disease management in the pyrethrum industry.’

• Delivered workshop session for TasTAFE apprentices ‘Managing soil erosion in crop production.’

Protecting Our Productive Soils

• Project delivery complete, with final compliance reports being prepared for submission by the end of July 2023.

• Soil erosion field day delivered Hagley School Farm campus on 20 April with 295 in attendance.

• Final project working group meeting held at Forthside vegetable research station on 19 June.

• Five landholder agreements (one-to-one support) signed and executed (one tunnelling dung beetle colony release and monitoring agreement at Redpa and four multispecies pasture establishment agreements at Preston, Beulah, Ridgley and Flowerdale).

• Final outcome report completed for Regional Land Partnerships.