Forestry Industry - Support Plantation Establishment Round 4 - Batch 1

The Australian Government is inviting organisations via a Demand Driven (eligibility based) process to deliver services under the Forestry Industry - Support Plantation Establishment Program.

Round 4 of the program will contribute to the Forestry Growth Fund, helping to grow Australia’s forestry industry by supporting regional jobs and rural communities, innovation, sustainable fibre supply, and domestic capacity to product high-value wood products for housing and construction.

The objectives of the program are to:

• increase future plantation forest resources available for processing, as well as for plantation forest management, harvesting and haulage employment
• support private industry, First Nations businesses, farm foresters and state and territory forestry bodies to expand the Australian plantation forest estate
• contribute to meeting Australia’s carbon emission reduction targets, including under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the Kyoto Protocol to the Climate Change Convention.

At the time of submitting your application, you must not have planted the trees as part of your project activities.

You also can not include any activities that have or will be undertaken prior to the earliest activity start date for the relevant batch you are applying to as part of your grant funded or co-contribution activities.

The earliest activity start dates for each batch are: 

• Batch 1: May 2027
• Batch 2: November 2027.

Assessment and notification of outcomes will be divided into 2 batches. The table below identifies the cut-off dates for the 2 batches:

Batch 1 - closes 4:00 pm AEDT on 16 December 2026

Batch 2 - closes 4:00 pm AEST on 30 June 2027

Eligibility

To be eligible, you must be one of the following entity types:

• Company
• Cooperative
• Corporate State or Territory Entity
• Incorporated Association
• Indigenous Corporation
• Partnership
• Sole Trader.

If you are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust, the Trustee must have an eligible entity type as listed above.