The Commonwealth On-Farm Further Irrigation Efficiency (COFFIE) program provides funding for irrigation infrastructure upgrades and other on-farm water efficiency activities for irrigators in the Murray–Darling Basin.
COFFIE will be rolled out across the Basin to give as many irrigators as possible access to funding – while not competing with existing on-farm programs until they finish in 2019.
- Proposals will be accepted at any time until 2024 – there will not be funding rounds.
- Proposals do not need to compete against each other, they simply need to meet the eligibility criteria.
- Water values will be publicly available and will reflect contemporary water market prices.
- Project funding will be 1.75 times the advertised water value.
- Smaller projects will be accepted – projects will need to make a minimum of 10ML (smaller projects may be accepted under the pilots).