Co-financing component of installation of anti-hail systems and/or well/drip irrigation system

The co-financing component for the arrangement of hail-suppression systems and/or wells/bore-holes/pumping station envisages financial assistance to potential beneficiaries for the modernization of existing perennial orchards and/or planting the new ones.

Within the framework of the co-financing component for the arrangement of hail-suppression systems and/or wells/bore-holes/pumping station, it is possible to provide co-financing to all municipalities and self-governing cities of Georgia, except for the following self-governing cities.

 Financial assistance

The co-financing component for the arrangement of hail-suppression systems and/or wells/bore-holes/pumping station envisages the allocation of targeted financial assistance to potential beneficiaries in the form of co-financing for the arrangement of hail-suppression systems and/or wells/bore-holes/pumping stations for the existing perennial orchards as well as for those to be planted.

Potential Beneficiary Eligibility Criteria

1.  The beneficiary of the co-financing component for the arrangement of hail-suppression systems and/or wells/bore-holes/pumping station can be:

A) A natural person or an individual entrepreneur who is a citizen of Georgia;

B) An enterprise founded in Georgia, including a registered agricultural cooperative.

The beneficiary of the co-financing component for the arrangement of hail-suppression systems and/or wells/bore-holes/pumping station cannot be an enterprise in which the state directly or indirectly owns shares, stocks, except for the enterprise in which the JSC Partnership Fund directly or indirectly owns a share or stocks.

The beneficiary of the component must be registered in the register produced within the framework of the "Farmers / Farmers Registration Project".

2.  To receive co-financing provided by the co-financing component for the arrangement of hail-suppression systems and/or wells/bore-holes/pumping station:

A) Potential beneficiary has to be in his/her full age;

B) A potential beneficiary must own agricultural land registered in their name with the LEPL National Agency of Public Registry or have acquired agricultural land under a long-term lease for a minimum of 10 years from the state, municipal authority, the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, JSC "Partnership Fund," a private individual, or a legal entity. The lease agreement must be registered with the LEPL National Agency of Public Registry. Additionally, the land plots, whether owned or leased, may have different cadastral codes. However, they must be adjacent, as confirmed by a cadastral map. If a drip irrigation system is to be installed across multiple land plots with different cadastral codes, a single unified irrigation system must be set up. The unified irrigation system must serve one or multiple multi-year crop orchards and must include one pump, one water storage tank, and other necessary irrigation components.

The area of ​​the land plot on which the hail-suppression systems and/or wells/bore-holes/pumping station is planned to accommodate should be at least 0.5 ha. The land on which it is planned to install anti-hail systems and / or  well / drip irrigation system should not be seized.