Objectives Provide practical support and investment to help rural and regional communities achieve economic growth, agricultural productivity, and resilience through the delivery of farm business loans, farm-related small business loans and plantation development loansRIC's farm business loans and farm related small business loans provide low-cost finance to businesses that are in financial need of assistance, to recover from short-term hardship, but are assessed as financially viable over the long-term and able to repay the loan. RIC also provides plantation development concessional loans to support new plantation developments and the replanting of bushfire-damaged plantations