A fertiliser company and a bank are among those who have responded to the plight of storm and flood hit Northland farmers.
The Ravensdown fertiliser co-operative is making a $20,000 donation to the Northland Rural Support Trust to help with the distribution of emergency feed and providing counselling and advisory services for flood stricken farmers.
It will also provide a series of packages to support farmers as they recover from the storm which, the Government says has disrupted about 80 percent of the primary sector in the region.
And the country's biggest rural lender, ANZ Bank, is offering Northland dairy farmers an assistance package - with loans at lower interest rates - to help them meet short-term cash requirements and get their farms back to full production.
Hikurangi Swamp is one of the hardest hit areas in Northland. Photo: SUPPLIED
