The $15 million program is designed to help farmers overcome financial barriers to entering the growing carbon market.
The grants will help farmers develop revegetation programs or to move to farming systems that build carbon dioxide stored in the soil so it is removed from the atmosphere.
This will aid in increasing long-term profits while also reducing our carbon footprint to help solve the problem of global climate change.
The program will deliver additional outcomes including improved biodiversity and conservation, agricultural productivity, overall soil health including salinity, along with Aboriginal economic and cultural opportunities.
A separate funding stream is available to researchers and institutions for innovative carbon storage projects that produce data to support carbon farming in WA.
Find out more about the Carbon Farming and Land Restoration Program.
Image caption: Agriculture and Food Minister Alannah MacTiernan discusses increasing soil carbon by growing perennial pastures with scientist Daniel Real.
