RDA Hume

Regional Development Australia (RDA) Hume plays a key role in advocating for investment into the region, as well as developing a single, unified voice and actively working to align government funding with regional priorities.

As an integrated body, RDA Hume plays a key role in directing State and Federal investment to the right infrastructure and community projects, ensuring there are strong sources of investment into the region.

Backed by both the State and Australian Governments, RDA Hume is supported by Regional Development Victoria, the Victorian Government’s lead agency responsible for rural and regional economic development.

Taking a whole-of-region approach, RDA Hume has a bird’s eye view of the challenges and opportunities that exist within the Hume region and is uniquely placed to leverage and coordinate regional effort and influence policy decisions from within state and Australian Government.

Committee members

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What we do

The role of RDA Hume is predominately facilitation, engagement and communication - getting key people and organisations around the table to ensure the region capitalises on opportunities.

RDA Hume collaborates with businesses, not-for-profits, and industry bodies to coordinate regional priorities and foster comparative advantages, while directing public and private sector investment into impactful infrastructure projects.

Who we work with

Bringing people and ideas together, RDA Hume fosters comparative advantages in agriculture, food processing and other regionally significant industries.

One of 6 committees that operate within Victoria, RDA Hume borders RDA Gippsland and RDA Loddon Mallee in Victoria and RDA Far South Coast, RDA Murray and RDA Southern Inland in NSW.

RDA Hume works across these neighbouring borders and throughout Victoria’s RDA regions, as well as the Goulburn and Ovens Murray Regional Partnerships to identify opportunities to leverage regional effort and boost economic activity.

Hear from the people that live and work in the region in the videos below.

Video: Tourism in north-east Victoria

Explore north-east Victoria through the eyes of locals that know the region best. Interviews with Dal Zotto Wine (King Valley), Harvest Moon (Nagambie) and Flavorite (Tatura).

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[Michael Dal Zotto, Owner – Dal Zotto Wine]

What we've really noticed is the visitors that we're seeing, there’s this real hunger to explore and find out what's new within their own state or their own country.

Fondo Prosecco is really something that came about through something that was part of our family's history.

The new accommodation is containers situated around the yard, and those containers will sleep two ensuite and a small little kitchenette.

New blood into the region is always positive. It's been fantastic sharing what we have to offer, meet the families, talk to the people at the cellar doors and hopefully get to share our lovely accommodation that we'll have set up later on this year.

[Belinda Beer, Harvest Moon retail]

I think the community were quite excited when we opened. It brings a lot more clientele from Melbourne back up. A lot of people come up for the wineries and now they realise they can actually come in here and do a little bit of retail therapy as well.

[Jon Murphy, Head Grower – Flavorite]

Flavorite was the pioneers of glasshouse produced fruit and vegetable in Australia.

For this site, when we finished the six hectare build, this will bring Flavorite’s total glasshouse production area to 64 hectares.

We employ over 600 employees across the regional sites where our major growing sites are.

We've got another six hectares going up which will create another 60 full-time jobs for the local community.

Working with state of the art technology, constant innovation, constantly looking at how we can be more sustainable.

[Belinda Beer, Harvest Moon retail]

A lot more people are now taking little country drives and visiting more regional Victoria, and we've definitely benefited from that and I think it's only going to get bigger and bigger and better.

We're not just an Australian name, we’re a worldwide name. So you know, that excites us.

[Michael Dal Zotto, Owner – Dal Zotto Wine]

We're just looking forward to seeing people come to the King Valley, sharing what we have to offer.

Video: Flavorite expands in Hume region

The Hume region welcomes a new multi-million dollar glasshouse for tomato grower, Flavorite.

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[Jon Murphy, Head Grower, Flavorite Tatura]

Flavorite established in the early nineties.

The pioneers of glasshouse produced fruit and vegetable in Australia.

This greenhouse specifically will create 60 full-time jobs to help manage, grow, pick and pack all the produce we produce.

Going forward, for Tatura, we plan on building another six hectares down the back here and also a packing shed.

The packing shed will fit out with state of the art technology to be able to pack a lot of different products.

These products will come from all of our growing sites that we can pack there.

We make this great produce. It's really rewarding when we see it on consumers’ tables and we get the feedback of what great tasting product we do.

All of that money going into the local communities is just promoting jobs and growth.

Just this farm, will probably be looking at about 400 to 500 staff working here.

Really good opportunities. Tatura is recognised worldwide for our production, our quality.

That excites us.

Our region

RDA Hume covers the Goulburn and Ovens Murray regions in Victoria, which includes the local government areas of Alpine, Benalla, Greater Shepparton, Indigo, Mansfield, Mitchell, Moira, Murrindindi, Strathbogie, Towong, Wangaratta and Wodonga.

Hume is a fast-growing region of Victoria with a social and cultural fabric and heritage to match its natural beauty. The region is renowned for world-class wines, gourmet food, and is part of the food bowl of Australia. The Murray, Goulburn, Broken, Ovens, King and Kiewa rivers are important to the region for environmental, lifestyle and business. The Strathbogie Ranges are a gateway for the famous High Country and the region is renowned for nature-based and cycle tourism.

The region’s diversity and new opportunities in key industries will continue to ensure steady economic development and jobs growth. This is reflected by Hume’s growing population, which is projected to increase by more than 38% by 2031.