FEE: 8% of the grant
RURAL DEVELOPMENT (KKYDP) GRANT PROJECTS
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry aims to increase the income level in rural areas by taking into account the protection of natural resources and the environment, to support family business activities and small and medium-sized enterprises in order to ensure the integration of agricultural production and agriculture-based industry, to develop the agricultural marketing infrastructure, to ensure retrospective traceability, to ensure the integration of agricultural production and agriculture-based industry. Supporting investments involving new technology in 81 provinces in order to strengthen the reliability, create alternative income sources in rural areas, strengthen the rural economic infrastructure, expand the use of new technologies developed for agricultural activities by producers, increase the effectiveness of ongoing rural development studies, and contribute to the creation of local development capacity in the rural society. It is announced every year by call procedure under the title of infrastructure and economic investments.
WHO CAN APPLY?
· Applications for projects to be prepared to realize the investment issues specified in the communiqué are made by real and legal persons.
· Except for handicrafts and value-added products, applicant real and legal persons may apply to the registration system related to the application subject determined by the Ministry before the deadline for applications regarding capacity increase and technology renewal and/or modernization; For applications for the completion of new facilities and partially made investments, they must be registered at the final report stage at the latest and continue to be registered until the end of the monitoring period.
· Established before the deadline for all investments; a) General partnerships, limited companies and joint stock companies defined in the Turkish Commercial Code No. 6102 dated 13/1/2011, b) Agricultural organizations can apply as legal entities.
· The organizations specified in the third paragraph may apply for investment issues related to their fields of activity specified in their founding statutes/articles of association.
· The organizations mentioned in the third paragraph must have taken a decision from their authorized boards regarding the project application, signing of the grant agreement and implementation of the applications before the application deadline and must have submitted the document proving that this decision has been taken in their project applications. Legal entities applying for project issues for all investments must be administratively and financially independent from the public. Legal entities must submit a commitment at the application stage stating that they are administratively and financially independent from the public.
WHO CANNOT APPLY?
· Persons other than real persons and legal entities described in the communiqué and those performing public duties, civil servants, public workers or lecturers working at state universities cannot benefit from grant support.
· Investors who signed a grant agreement but could not submit their investment to the final report until the date when applications started to be received, investors who benefited from grant support within the scope of previous communiqués but whose project is in the termination process cannot benefit from grant support.
· Except for agricultural organizations, if the legal entity partners are real persons, the partners cannot benefit from grant support as real persons. In addition, if the legal entity partners are legal entities, the legal entity partners cannot benefit from grant support separately. If natural and/or legal entities apply for a grant themselves, different legal entities/partners they have created or will create cannot benefit from separate grant support.
· Applications of public institutions and organizations such as special provincial administrations and municipalities, their foundations and unions, and their partnerships are not evaluated within the scope of the Programme. (5) In accordance with the Collection General Communiqué (Serial: A, Number: 1) published in the Official Gazette dated 30/6/2007 and numbered 26568, investors with overdue tax debts and overdue premium debts to the Social Security Institution cannot benefit from grant support.
The upper limits of the grant basis project amount are excluding VAT;
· 14 Million TL for new facility applications (Grant maximum 7 Million TL)
· 12 Million TL for partially made investments (Grant maximum 6 Million TL)
· Capacity increase, technology renewal etc. 10 Million TL for (Grant maximum 5 Million TL)
· The lower limit of the grant-based project amount for economic investments is at least 3,001,000.-TL .
· 50% of the grant-based project amount is supported by grant. Applicants are responsible for providing the other 50%.
· In rural economic infrastructure investment matters, the grant-based project amount cannot exceed the upper limit of 3,000,000 Turkish Liras. The lower limit of the project amount for the grant is 100,000 Turkish Liras.
· The applicant must be an SME. Since it is aimed to support investment facilities for small and medium-sized economic activities, the investment subject is fully realized with the total amount of the project specified in the application.
· Within the scope of the program, project applications prepared for the partial realization of a large project or in sections/units will not be accepted.
· Machinery, equipment and construction costs are supported. The project budget is prepared excluding VAT (Value Added Tax).
· The total amount of the project; If it exceeds the project amount based on the grant determined in this article, the remaining part of the work must be financed by the project owners as an in-kind contribution and must be completed within the investment period.
WHICH PROVINCES ARE SUPPORTED?
Although 81 provinces are supported, there are specific provincial restrictions for some application areas.
FOR WHICH INVESTMENTS CAN I APPLY?
A- FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE ENTERPRISES IN AGRICULTURE-BASED ECONOMIC INVESTMENT ISSUES;
1) Processing, packaging and storage of agricultural products
· Investments in medicinal and aromatic plants,
· Investments in herbal products,
· Investments in animal products,
· Investments in steel silos,
· Investments in cold storage
2) On fixed investment issues for agricultural production;
· Investments in plant production in closed environments,
· Investments in cattle breeding,
· Investments in small livestock breeding,
· Investments in poultry breeding,
· Investments in cultivated mushroom production,
· Investments in cattle and sheep slaughterhouses,
· Investments in poultry slaughterhouses,
3) Investments Regarding the Use of Renewable Energy Resources
4) Investments in Aquaculture
· aquaculture in the sea,
· Aquaculture in inland waters,
· Cultivation in specialized organized industrial zones based on agriculture,
5) Processing, Packaging and Storage of Fertilizer of Animal and Plant Origin
· Fertilizer of animal origin,
· Fertilizers of plant origin are evaluated within the scope of facility grant support.
B- RURAL ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS
· Infrastructure investments for the development of family business activities,
· Investments in beekeeping and bee products,
· Investments in information systems and education,
· Investments in handicrafts and value-added products,
· Investments in silkworm breeding,
· Investments in aquaculture,
· Machinery park investments for agricultural organizations,
· Investments in medicinal and aromatic plant cultivation are evaluated within the scope of grant support.
Important Note: There may be some special application conditions in terms of investment subject, investment address, capacity and special qualifications of the applicant. Be sure to get detailed information from your advisor.
