Small steps in what is an enormous cleanup job – but more help is still needed. That’s the recovery scenario facing farmers on their flood-ravaged properties, with additional Government-supplied labour having been recruited to help clean-up properties clobbered by a one-in-100-year rain event. Following the May 30-31 Canterbury floods, the Government allocated $500,000 towards the enhanced taskforce green (ETFG) programme, which is coordinated by the Ministry of Social Development (MSD). Local farmer Darryl Butterick, who hosted ETFG workers on his property and had been hit hard by the floods, said the recovery remained a monumental task. Adams Burns/LDR The state of Butterick's Greenstreet property a month after the Canterbury floods.

Source: Stuff July 07, 2021 07:07 UTC