Deadline: 12-Jan-22
The Rural Payments Agency is currently accepting applications for the Farming Transformation Fund to provide grants towards large capital items to help businesses improve productivity, profitability, and environmental sustainability.
They are:
- Water Management
- Improving Farm Productivity
- Adding Value
Funding Information
For each project, the minimum grant you can apply for is £35,000. The maximum grant is £500,000. Grants can cover up to 40% of the eligible costs of a project. The minimum total eligible cost of a project would therefore be £87,500.
What they are looking for?
The Rural Payments Agency is looking for projects that improve farm productivity through more efficient use of water for irrigation and secure water supplies for crop irrigation. For example:
- introduce more efficient water application (for example, change from rain gun application to trickle or boom application)
- secure water supply for crop irrigation that enables water use in a more sustainable way (for example, constructing a reservoir and moving away from summer abstraction to rainwater harvesting or peak flow/winter abstraction)
- help business resilience and prosperity (for example, using new irrigation systems and newly irrigated areas to increase yield/productivity or introduce high value crops)
- encourage collaboration for example supplying water to neighbouring farmers
Eligibility Criteria
- Only arable and horticultural businesses growing, or intending to grow, irrigated food crops, ornamentals or forestry nurseries in England can apply for the water management grants.
- The land on which these activities take place must be owned by you, or you must have a tenancy agreement in place until 5 years after the project has been completed.
For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/guidance/farming-investment-fund