Deadline: 24 December 2018
The European Union (EU) is currently accepting proposals for its program entitled “Support for investment in agriculture”.
Program Lots and Priorities
- Lot 1: Improving crop production
- The specific priorities of this lot are:
- to increase compliance with standards as a result of the implementation of local legal texts relating to plant health, food safety, environmental protection and/or occupational health and safety;
- to promote the use of efficient irrigation systems and/or water saving techniques;
- to promote the use of renewable energy and/or increase energy efficiency;
- to increase the added value of marketed agricultural products and/or modernise the post-harvest (marketing and processing) capacity on farms;
- to achieve marketing quality standards and/or Global Gap standard certification of primary agricultural products.
- The specific priorities of this lot are:
- Lot 2: Improving animal production
- The specific priorities of this lot are:
- to increase compliance with standards as a result of the implementation of local legal texts relating to food safety, animal health and welfare, environmental protection and/or occupational health and safety;
- to improve facilities for milking and/or the cold storage of milk;
- to improve facilities for the production of honey, poultry meat or eggs;
- to improve biosecurity and/or the management of manure, waste water and/or waste materials;
- to promote the use of renewable energy and/or increase energy efficiency;
- to increase the added value of marketed agricultural products and/or modernise the marketing and/or processing capacity of farms.
- The specific priorities of this lot are:
Funding Information
- For individual farmers (legal persons):
- minimum amount: EUR 35,000
- maximum amount: EUR 110,000.
- For irrigation unions and cooperatives (legal entities):
- minimum amount: EUR 35,000
- maximum amount EUR 150,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Agriculture in Cyprus is characterised by a large proportion of small scale farm holding, which struggles to compete, due to economies of scale. The competitiveness of such enterprises could be strengthened through formal development cooperatives. This Call for Proposals therefore allows applications from individual farmers or already existing development cooperatives and irrigation unions.
- Informal associations of farmers will not be considered as these cooperation forms may be ineffective and due to possible lack of coordination capacity of some Turkish Cypriot farmers. Allowing such arrangements could put EU financing at risk, and the guidelines have thus been limited to applicants acting solely without co-applicant and affiliated companies.
- For Lot 1: Improving crop production
- In order to be eligible for a grant, the applicant must:
- be a registered farmer (legal person) or an irrigation union or a cooperative (legal entity) whose activities are agricultural ; and
- be established in the northern part of Cyprus; and
- be registered at the tax office (for individual applicants); and
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action, not acting as an intermediary; and
- be operating on one of the following minimum surfaces cultivated:
- 250 donums of cereals / dry-land fodder, or
- 25 donums of irrigated fodder, or
- 15 donums of citrus, or
- 5 donums of vineyards and/or fruit orchards (other than citrus), or
- 10 donums of olives, or
- 10 donums of open field vegetables including potatoes, or
- 1 donum of greenhouses (vegetables, nursery for vegetable seedlings, nursery for orchard, forest and garden seedling, cut flower production);
- have minimum of one year experience in the relevant field of crop production on the day of the Concept Note submission deadline; and
- Sign a declaration for agreement to host training and demonstration exercises for EU projects during next five years upon award of the grant contract.
- In order to be eligible for a grant, the applicant must:
- For Lot 2: Improving animal production
- In order to be eligible for a grant, the applicant must:
- be a registered farmer (legal person) or an irrigation union or a cooperative (legal entity) whose activities are agricultural ; and
- be established in the northern part of Cyprus; and
- be a registered at the tax office (for individual farmers); and
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action, not acting as an intermediary; and
- have a minimum of 25 milking cows or a minimum of 100 goats or sheep registered in the veterinary department animal registry system at the time of the application for the project; or have at least 30 bee hives, or have capacity of at least 500 birds for egg production or capacity of at least 1,000 birds for poultry meat production as per registration with the corresponding department; and
- have minimum of one year experience in the relevant field of animal production on the day of the Concept Note submission deadline; and
- maintains animal identification records, including ear-tags in animals and record books (where applicable according to the species); and
- signs a declaration for agreement to host training and demonstration exercises for EU projects during next five years upon award of the grant contract.
- In order to be eligible for a grant, the applicant must:
How to Apply
In order to apply for the grants, applicants have to register themselves in PADOR, an on-line database via given website.
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