Deadline: 11-Nov-22
The Growing for the Environment Grant Scheme is now open for applications to support the growing and utilisation of crops, which can result in improvements in the environmental performance of a farm business.
Crops and activity supported through the Growing for the Environment scheme have been pre-identified as offering clear and quantifiable benefits to the environment and farm business.
Objectives
The scheme objectives are to support farmers to:
- reduce carbon and greenhouse gas emissions.
- adapt to climate change and build greater resilience into farm businesses.
- improve water quality and reduce flood risks.
- contribute towards a reversal in the decline of Wales’ native biodiversity.
Themes
- farm scale land management
- on farm environmental improvements
- on farm efficiency and diversification
- landscape scale land management
- woodland and forestry
- food and farming supply chains
Sectors
The primary production of agricultural products includes the following farming sectors:
- arable
- beef
- dairy
- goats
- horticulture (including hydroponics and aquaponics)
- pigs
- poultry
- sheep
- apiculture
Funding Information
- The indicative budget allocation for this application window is £1.3m
- The maximum grant award is £5,000.
Eligibility Criteria
You are eligible to apply if:
- You are registered with the Welsh Government and have been issued with a Customer Reference Number (CRN).
- You must:
- be a primary producer of agricultural products
- have 3ha of eligible agricultural land registered with RPW in Wales or
- be able to demonstrate over 550 standard labour hours
Ineligible
- you are an Equine customer (including grazing horses)
- you are a Forestry customer (including woodland only owners)
- a group of farmers (including Producer Organisations)
- However, if two or more agricultural holdings are managed as a single unit, or in a single ownership, or to some extent have common management, common financial accounts, common livestock, machinery and/or feeding stores that will be classed as a single business.
- If you are an existing Glastir Advanced contract holder, field parcels where permanent Glastir Advanced management options are located are ineligible for Growing for the Environment support. Where a Glastir Advanced rotational arable option is undertaken, the Growing for the Environment activity, must be in addition to the area you are currently committed to carry out under your Glastir Advanced contract.
- If you are an existing Glastir Organic contract holder and receive a payment rate 1, (land in rotation for the production of horticulture crops) The Growing for the Environment activity, must be in addition to this rotational area.
For more information, visit https://businesswales.gov.wales/walesruralnetwork/rural-programmes/schemes/farm-scale-land-management/growing-environment