September 10, 2018
Fund tests new land uses for Rotorua
A $1.5million fund to help landowners in the Lake Rotorua catchment are being urged to tap into the fund to try alternative low nitrogen land uses.
Bay of Plenty Regional Council catchments advisor Anna Grayling says the fund will help set-up working examples which can be shared with other landowners.
Examples could include growing kakakawa for traditional Māori medicine, manuka oil plantations, crops not yet trialled in the catchment or even establishing agri-tourism ventures.
She says the funding is not for research projects but for practical applications for ideas that have already been vetted as possible in the catchment.
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