Through its portfolio of agricultural-based projects, Great Southern has provided a vehicle for many thousands of investors to inject capital and skill into country areas.

As Great Southern’s plantations estate reaches critical mass and continues to  mature to include processing and other value-adding industries, it is helping to arrest or reverse rural decline through the provision of jobs in rural and regional areas.

Similarly, the company’s beef cattle and horticulture projects are also located in rural and remote areas, and often provide people in these regions with sound long-term employment where few other options exist. 

Many rural businesses that are both upstream of the company’s core business activities (such as nurseries, mechanics and contractors, fertilising businesses) and downstream (wood exporters and timber mills, olive oil and wine producers, and abattoirs) have grown their businesses as a direct result of Great Southern’s activities.