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The Rural Business Development Corporation has completed assessments of the first applications from farmers in the declared area on the mid-South Coast. More than 30 notifications will be sent out by the end of the week. However Agriculture Western Australia Chief Executive Officer Dr Graeme Robertson said he was surprised that there had been so few applications for the EC interest rate subsidy. Dr Robertson said while about 350 people had applied for the EC Relief Payment assistance from Centrelink, there had been comparatively few applications for the interest rate subsidy component. We are concerned that landholders in the declared area may not think they are eligible, when they may be.