Program · Outcome 1: More sustainable, productive, internationally competitive and profitable Australian agricultural, food and fibre industries through policies and initiatives that promote better resource management practices, innovation, self-reliance and improved access to international markets
Program 1.11: Drought Programs
Key 2.1 Promote better resource management practices, sustainability and self-reliance in the Activities agricultural sector.
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 48 reported
$199m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$17m (−7.9%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture Future Drought Resilience Special Account | administered | $127m | $129m | +$1.8m +1.4% | reported | Table 2.1, row 49 |
| Farm Business Concessional Loans Scheme – discount expenses | administered | $65m | $44m | −$20m −31.2% | reported | Table 2.1, row 51 |
| Regional Investment Corporation | administered | $23m | $25m | +$1.8m +7.8% | reported | Table 2.1, row 48 |
| Farm Business Concessional Loans Scheme – state administration | administered | $980k | $425k | −$555k −56.6% | reported | Table 2.1, row 52 |
| Future Drought Fund – Administration Costs | administered | $203k | $203k | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1, row 47 |
| Drought Recovery Concessional Loans Scheme – state administration | administered | $0 | $74k | +$74k new | reported | Table 2.1, row 50 |