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Women Farmer Capital Investment Scheme
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The Women Farmers’ Capital Investment Scheme (WFCIS) provides an incentive to women farmers to upgrade their agricultural buildings and equipment by providing them with an increased level of support to meet the considerable capital costs associated with the establishment of their enterprises. To promote gender equality, employment, growth, generational renewal, social inclusion and local development in rural areas by supporting the participation of women in farming. To improve competitiveness and contribute to the improvement of agricultural incomes.
It also improves efficiency, drives growth and creates environmental benefits.
The scheme is open to farmers who are more than 18 years and under 67 years of age at the date of submitting the application form; are identified as female on the department’s Corporate Customer Management (CCM) system; own or have leasehold title to the site on which it is proposed to carry out the development, have a minimum of 5 hectares 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, or, for tillage related investments, have a minimum of 15 hectares of eligible crops or in the case of intensive enterprises, generate a minimum of 20 production units from farming, for Equine Investments only have and a minimum of 3 equines declared on the Equine Census or equivalent in the year preceding application.
A Woman Farmer can only qualify for one holding or entity under this scheme.
Grant aid will only be paid on approved, completed and eligible expenditure and shall be paid at the rate of 60% 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.
Women Farmer Capital Investment Scheme: Terms and Conditions
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Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Johnstown Castle Estate, Co. Wexford, Y35 PN52
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