Local Industries

Horticulture

Childers is the largest producers of tomatoes, avocadoes and undercover stone fruit in the southern hemisphere and is ripe for value-adds. Macadamia nuts are showing gain in the area.

Aquaculture

Childers is fast becoming known for its aquaculture farms. Some of the species being farmed are: Silver Perch; Red Claw;

Sugar Cane & Milling

Sugar cane farming has been a long standing sustainable industry in the Childers area.

There are approximately 200 growers supplying sugar cane to the local Isis Central Sugar Mill.

All of the cane is delivered to the Mill over 153 km of narrow gauge railway.