We offer co-financing of gardens to those interested in cultivating perennial crops. The potential for growing perennial crops varies by region of the country. Therefore, according to the regions, perennial crops are distributed as follows: 

Kakheti: peaches, plums, tkemali, cherries, olives, cherries, apricots, raspberries, blackberries, persimmons, pomegranate, kiwi, figs, walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, pistachios, apples, pears, quinces. 

Shida Kartli: apricots, almonds, dogwood, walnuts, peaches, plums, tkemali, cherries, currants, hazelnuts, raspberries, apples, pears, cherries, blackberries, quince, nuts.

Kvemo Kartli: apples, peach, plums, tkemali, cherries, apricots, currants, raspberries,walnuts, almonds, pomegranate, pears, sour Cherries, persimmon, blackberries, quince, figs, Nuts, Olives (only in the districts of Adabani and Marneuli),Phistacio

Mtskheta - Mtianeti: almond, peach, plum, wild plum, sour cherry, currant, gooseberries, raspberries, walnut, apple, pear, cherry, blackberry, quince, nuts.

Samtskhe - Javakheti: peach, plum, wild plum, sour cherry, currant, gooseberries, raspberries, walnut, apple, pear, cherry, blackberry, quince.

Imereti: blueberry, blackberry, plum, wild plum, sweet cherry, currant, gooseberries, raspberries, persimmon, walnut, nuts, apple, pear, cherry,fig.

Racha - Lechkhumi and Lower Svaneti: plum, wild plum, sour cherry,walnut, persimmon,nuts, apple, cherry, pear, raspberry, blackberry, quince,fig.

Samegrelo and Upper Svaneti: walnut, apple, tangerine, orange, lemon, plums,wild plum, blueberries,persimmons,kiwi,feijoa,nuts, pears, cherry, raspberry, blackberry, fig.

Guria: blackberry,raspberry, tangerine, orange, lemon, plum, tkemali, cherry, blueberry, persimmon, kiwi, feijoa, hazelnuts, apples, pears, cherries, walnuts, figs, bay leaf.

Adjara: walnut, tangerine, orange, lemon, plum, wild plum, sweet cherry, blueberries, persimmon, kiwi, feijoa, nuts, apple, raspberry, blackberry, pear, hazelnut, sour cherry,fig.

Co-financing of the gardens and promotion of perennial crops will apply to all municipalities and self-governing cities.  

Financial assistance:

Financial assistance includes the financial support both for purchase of seedlings and the arrangement of a modern drip irrigation system.

A maximum of 70% of purchased seedlings will be funded. As for the cooperatives with agricultural status, no more than 80%  will be funded in the case of villages and highland settlements adjacent to the dividing line,

Both locally purchased and imported seedlings will be subject to co-financing. At the same time, the maximum co-financing amount is established for each seedling.

The maximum funding for a drip irrigation system on a plot of land is 50%, but not more than 1250 GEL per 0.5 hectare. For agricultural cooperatives, a maximum of 60% in the case of villages adjacent to the dividing line and highland settlements, but not more than 1,500 GEL per 0.5 ha.

Note: Not funded unforseen expenses or other expenses; planned accumulation; Overhead costs)

Note: Not funded unforseen expenses or other expenses; planned accumulation; Overhead costs)

Technical assistance:

The co-financing program participants, if desired, will be trained in the following issues:

a) Practical training in pruning of plants in the cultivated garden;

b) Introduction of integrated plant protection systems - IPM;

c) Ensuring garden watering and plant nutrition.

Limitations:

1. Any individual interested in growing perennial crops, as well as those who could not cultivate new areas due to lack of financial resources, can participate in the Garden Program.

A beneficiary may be:

   a) a natural person or a sole proprietor who is a citizen of Georgia;

   b) an enterprise incorporated in Georgia, including a registered agricultural cooperative.

The enterprise, in which the state directly or indirectly owns shares or stocks, may not be the beneficiary of the gardens’ component.

2.  For obtaining financial and technical assistance determined under the gardens’ component:

   a) a beneficiary must be a person of full legal age;

   b) a beneficiary must own an agricultural plot of land that is registered in the National Agency of Public Registry with one cadastral code as his/her property, or must have obtained an agricultural plot of land under a long-term leasing from the state/Local self-government body / the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia / Adjara /JSC "Partnership Fund"/ From a person / legal entity (the remaining period of the leasing must be at least 10 years and the leasing agreement must be registered with the National Agency of Public Registry).

   2.1. The requirement on the leasing relationship with the state determined by paragraph (b) of this article shall not apply, if in case of participation of the Patriarchate of Georgia in the project it establishes the enterprise(s) and gives it a plot of land in ownership or under a long-term leasing (the remaining period of the leasing must be at least 10 years). 

3. In case of The cultivation of pistachios,olives,vineyards and the nut orchards in Western Georgia  particularly in Guria, Adjara and Samegrelo, Drip irrigation system is voluntary. 

  3.1. In Gardens component beneficiaries have the opportunity to take part unlimited times, although, the amount of funding shall not exceed 250 000 GEL, while the total area of maximum 50 hectares may be cultivated  for garden component.

   3.2. Under the gardens component a single beneficiary is allowed to arrange perennial gardens on the aria  Of min. 0.5  and max. 50 hectares.

  3.3. The co-financing capacity of 0,5 ha shall not exceed GEL 5,000. The maximum limit for financing blueberry crops at 0.5 ha is 7500 GEL..

 3.4. Maximum amount of co-financing determined for one beneficiary must not exceed  250 000 GEL.

4. Under the gardens’ component, first of all, 70% of the cost of purchased saplings will be financed, and then the drip irrigation system will be financed from the remaining amount. In case of cooperatives with agricultural status, villages accross demarcaion line and highland settlements -  of the cost of seedlings to be purchased, and the remaining difference for arrangement drip irrigation systems.

Preconditions:

1. The plot, which is planned to be the future garden, should be cultivated no less than 40 centimeters deep. 

2. The plot of land must be supplied with permanent water source, that means existence of the lake, river or river channel within maximum 500 meters from the external perimeter of the land, or the existence of a well or a borehole on the territory of the plot of land.

Note: If the land is provided with water, Regional Service of the Regional Relations Department of the Agency or the Ministry of Agriculture of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara shall describe the factual circumstances on the spot, on the basis of which the Center confirms or denies the water supply in writing.

3. The plot of land, which is intended for the gardens, must not be under lien.

4. The application must include the minimum amount of certain plants that must be planted on 1 hectare. 

Minimum accaptable frequency of plants per 1 ha for
 Intensive and semi-intensive gardens and co-financing   limits:

Note: These co-financing limits will apply to applications submitted after 28 February 2022 and will not apply to applications submitted before that date.

Saplings must be purchased from qualified nursery gardens selected under the program frame of “Plant the Future” or through the import. The drip irrigation system must be purchased from / installed by qualified companies. 

Turkish nurseries.

exept for the folloung nurseries:Neknari İç ve Dış Ticaret Ltd. Şti.

The component does not fund walnut seedlings obtained from Turkish nurseries.

Ukrainian Nurseries:

Belarus Nurseries:

Serbian nurseries

In case of purchasing seedlings through import, the potential beneficiary may transfer all or part of his / her co-payment to the bank account of the seedling supplier before submitting the application to the Agency and / or after submitting the application, but not more than 12 months prior, After concluding the contract, it will be considered as a beneficiary's co-participation.

Stages:

Benficiaries should apply to a laboratory to take soil samples and carry out their laboratory analysis. You can apply to the following laboratories:

1. Soil and food diagnostic centre “Anaseuli”
   Address: №9, Metsniereba str., Anaseuli, Ozurgeti; Tel: 790-65-11-15; 599928761 E-mail: zonaluri@mail.ru 
2. Multitest – a chemical laboratory of food and fossils testing
   Address: №13, Didgori str., village Dighomi, Tbilisi, Tel: 214 48 48; E-mail: multitest@wanex.net 
3. Georgian Agrarian University H. Ferry Ecological Agriculture and Nature Protection Laboratory Address: №240, David Aghmashenebeli Ave, Tbilisi Tel: 591 67 68 58 ; 577 11 20 64 ; E-mail: t.urushadze@agruni.edu.ge 
4. LEPL Georgian Technical University "Agroecological Scientific-Diagnostic
   and Examination Laboratory"Laboratory Address: Tbilisi,D.Guramishvili av. N17, E-mail: likaaptsiauri77@gmail.com ; Tel: 577 72 74 07
5. LLC Quality Lab - LLC Quality Lab (S/C: 406097236) Address: Georgia, Tbilisi, Tsereteli Ave. #95a, Tel: +995 32 214 70 20; 596 830 830 , e-mail: info@qlab.ge, website: www.qlab.ge 
6. G.Natadze Sanitation, Hygiene and Medical Ecology Scientific-Research Institute, Address: Georgia, Tbilisi, Didube,Uznadze St., No. 78, Tel.: 2955366; 2961485 e-mail: info@hygiene.ge  website: www.hygiene.ge 

A laboratory employee will take samples on site and make their laboratory analysis (the list of necessary analysis to be made)

Note: Depending on the area of the plot to be cultivated, the beneficiary must submit soil analyzes of a multiple of 5-7 ha to the center for evaluation.

Then submit an application (specifying the list of the plants to be planted in the garden) and the results of the laboratory analysis of the soil samples to the LEPL "Agricultural Scientific-Research Centre" for certifying compliance of the plot of land with the plants to be planted . 

On the basis of the laboratory results the LEPL "Agricultural Scientific-Research Centre" will determine compliance of the plot of land with the plants to be planted, and issues a notice on the compliance or non-compliance of the plot of land with the plants to be planted.

A representative of the agricultural information and consultation centre will visit the plot of land and check the compliance of cultivation of the land and its water supply source with the criteria according to the established methodology (the cultivation criteria of the plot of land).

In case of the compliance with the criteria the centre will issue a notice on the cultivation and water supply source of the plot of land.

To complete the application, a potential beneficiary / eligible person must register on
the website. Registration is done after filling in the required fields.

Fields to be filled in during registration:

• Name, surname 
• Date of birth
• Personal number / Identification number;
• Contact number,cell phone number
• Email address
• Password

After filling the registration data, the potential beneficiary / authorized person presses the button - "Register" and completing the registration process. With each subsequent visit to the Website, the Potential Beneficiary, after entering his/her own email / personal number and password, enters  his/her Website Control Panel. 

In order for a potential beneficiary / eligible person to upload an application, He/she must log in to their website management panel, click the "New Application" button, fill in the electronic application form and save the application. (Clicks the "Save Application" button). After that, the potential beneficiary should go to the page - "My Applications", where the submitted application (filled in by the potential beneficiary) will appear and upload the submitted documentation.

 (the list fo the documents to be submitted)  

There is a "Submit Application" button on the application page, after which the potential beneficiary agrees to the terms and conditions of the program ("I agree")

In case of consent from the potential beneficiary, the completed application and the submitted documentation will be registered in the system, with an automatically assigned registration number.

Once submission of the application is completed, it is not allowed/possible  to make any correction or changes.

If the electronic application and the submitted documentation comply with the terms of the draft application, the application will be approved. After the approval of the application, a co-financing agreement is concluded.

The agricultural cooperatives participating in the program (within the perennial garden component) will be financed/reimbursed for the cost of the pesticides purchased on the basis of the submitted invoice and/or the relevant document, but not more than GEL 5,000. 

Fill in the application form (application form)

Submit the completed application and accompanying documentation to the agency or your region In the regional office: list of documents to be submitted  What should the invoice contain

In case of compliance with the terms of the application and the submitted documentation,
an agreement on financing / reimbursement of the cost of the poisoning device will be concluded.

Form of power of attorney (Third Party)

Form of power of attorney (Among Landowners)

The expert / audit report of the person in the register of the state sub-agency represented by the beneficiary - the Accounting, Reporting and Audit Supervision Service - must confirm the  fulfillment of the obligations stipulated in the contract. 

The conclusion should describe the methodology of its preparation and should be accompanied by photos of the cultivated garden, the arranged irrigation system and the materials (if the contract stipulates the mentioned purpose). The performance of the purpose must be confirmed by an inspection carried out by the auditor (by the factual circumstances seen by the auditor on the spot) and must be accompanied by a copy of the expenditure documentation (s) used to prepare the report.

Note: Irrigation system arrangements are recommended to be carried out before planting or in the shortest period after planting, which should not exceed 1 month.