Tillage Capital Investment Scheme

The Tillage Capital Investment Scheme (TCIS) facilitates the Tillage Sector to develop a targeted and precise approach focusing on environmental dividends, efficiency and growth and provides financial support to farmers to help them achieve improved competitiveness, increased efficiency, growth and environmental benefits.

The scheme is open to farmers who have a minimum of 15 hectares of owned, leased or rented lands which have been have declared under the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) or the Basic Income Support for Sustainability (BISS) or equivalent in the year of application or preceding year.

Grant aid will only be paid on approved, completed and eligible expenditure and shall be paid at the rate of 40% up to the applicable maximum investment ceiling of €90,000 per holding. In the case of an application by two or more eligible partners in a partnership registered on this department’s Register of Farm Partnership the maximum eligible investment ceiling shall be increased to €160,000. Multiple applications per tranche are permissible. However, the minimum amount of investment which is eligible for approval under this Scheme is €2,000 per application.