THE Federal Minister responsible for assisting in Queensland's flood recovery has made his first visit to Maryborough since it was devastated by the raging Mary River in January.

Joe Ludwig, the Minister for Agriculture, said it was the first of many visits to the area in the flood recovery process and he was keen to set up roundtable talks with Fraser Coast primary producers and small business owners.

He did just that in the North Burnett on Wednesday, where damage to citrus crops is expected to top $100 million, and also announced $6.5 million in funding for recovery in Gayndah, Eidsvold and Mundubbera.

While he wasn't handing out any cash on the Fraser Coast yesterday, he said there was an $80 million betterment fund in place between the federal and state government to help councils flood-proof infrastructure.

"The Betterment Fund is where you can take an asset and either shift it, change it, widen it, do whatever you need to do to it to make it better and more flood-proof," Mr Ludwig said.

"The $80 million fund will be for the exclusive access of those local councils most in need to upgrade their roads to be more flood-proof for future events."

Fraser Coast Mayor Gerard O'Connell said the council was identifying infrastructure such as the toy library, aquatic centre, Maryborough-Hervey Bay Rd and Granville Bridge that would benefit from flood-proofing.

"We're looking at how can we keep places like the Granville Bridge or its approaches from going underwater or is there something we can do to give CBD shop owners more time to evacuate?"

Mr O'Connell and Mr Ludwig took a short walk through the central business district on Thursday and spoke to some of the shopkeepers affected by the flood such as Anne Proctor, owner of Anne's Irresistible Lingerie, who had a metre of water through her shopfront.