2016-07-12 - Item 12 - Att 1 - Agriculture and Agricultural Land in Noosa Shire

•   Ensure the productive value of land is considered in all land use decision making
•   Promote sustainable management practices and connect best practice, contemporary
    scientific and market research with existing and potential producers
•   Examine and enhance the urban/rural interface to enable the continuation of existing rural
    activities, and allow for future additional rural activities and reduce conflict
•   Improve the management of the incidence and spread of pests and weeds
•   Support the introduction of appropriate new crop pilot schemes that contribute to enhanced
    landscape maintenance
•   Promote mechanisms that support land owners and producers to easily transition from one
    crop to another crop in response to market demand
•   Defining the region’s competitive advantages in agricultural production
•   Support share farming schemes that will connect owners of vacant farm land to potential
    producers
•   Support the development of a skills mentoring program for new entrants to rural production
•   Encourage food industry clusters at key rural centres such as Cooroy
•   Assist in the promotion of the region through food branding projects and broader south east
    Queensland efforts to leverage the region’s food produce as an economic opportunity for
    the region




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