SA forest growers say water restrictions are holding the industry back

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SA's forestry industry says it's struggling to secure enough water licences to expand, warning that if growers plant forests interstate instead, jobs and investment will follow.

According to ABARES data from 2016, more than 5,500 people were directly employed in the forestry sector in South Australia and most of those were in the state's south east.

He said over time, if forest growers shifted to Victoria, jobs based in South Australia would move across too. "We haven't been able to get investors interested in this region and I suspect that's because they've had a look at the long-term prospects of availability of resources here."Concerns over the amount of water available to the forestry industry come as an independent review of the science underpinning the Water Allocation Plan enters its final stages of peer review.

Meanwhile, tSouth Australia's Parliament started a separate inquiry earlier this year to investigate issues in the timber industry in the Limestone Coast.

 

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