Co-financing for drip irrigation systems arrangement

To receive co-financing you can submit a completed application form along with the accompanying documentation:

• In physical form — to the central office of the Rural Development Agency or the relevant regional office;
• Electronically — to the agency’s e-mail address: document@rda.gov.ge

For detailed information on the stages required to receive co-financing and the documentation to be submitted, see below.

The cost of installing a drip irrigation system will be subsidized on agricultural land plots where the establishment of a multi-year orchard has not been financed and/or requested under the orchard component of this program, for physical and legal entities – up to 50%, but not exceeding 1,250 GEL per 0.5 ha, and for agricultural cooperatives, villages near the conflict line, and high-altitude settlements – up to 60%, but not exceeding 1,500 GEL per 0.5 ha.

Note: The following are not financed: Unforeseen/other costs; Planned accumulation; Overhead costs.

Under this component, one beneficiary may receive funding for the installation of up to 50 ha of drip irrigation systems.

In order to sign an agreement between the Agency and the potential beneficiary, the potential beneficiary must submit the following documents: "What should an invoice contain?"

• Completed application form;
• Extract from the registry of entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurial (non-commercial) legal entities (for legal entities);
• Copy of the identification document:
• For legal entities - of the director/responsible person; For physical persons/individual entrepreneurs - of the landowner and the responsible person;
• Document proving ownership of the land plot (extract from the public registry and cadastral map); In case of lease, the lease agreement must be submitted along with the extract. (The remaining lease period must be at least 10 years, and the lease agreement must be registered with the Public Registry of the National Agency);
• Invoice and/or contract in Georgian/notarized translation into Georgian from the company installing the drip irrigation system;
• Conclusion issued by the relevant structural unit of the Agency or the Ministry of Agriculture of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara confirming that the land plot is water-supplied. This document is not mandatory if the installation of the anti-hail systems and/or well/drilling/drip irrigation systems has been co-financed by the Agency, and the purposefulness has been confirmed;
• LEPL − Levan Samkharauli National Bureau of Forensic Expertise or a report issued by an auditor/audit firm registered in the State Register of Auditors/Audit (Audit) Firms, issued by the Accounting, Reporting and Audit Supervision Service, a state sub-agency institution within the system of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, on the compliance of the gardens on the land specified in the application with the conditions specified in the Gardens Component of this Program.
  
  Except for the case when a garden has been planted on the land plot requested in the application with the Agency's co-financing within the framework of the Gardens Component and the fulfillment of the purpose has been confirmed to the Agency three months prior to the submission of the application.
  
  Note: Information about the above-mentioned auditors and audit firms will be published later.
• Beneficiary's bank details.

The cost of installing a drip irrigation system will be financed only after the beneficiary submits a conclusion from the LEPL - Levan Samkharauli National Bureau of Forensic Expertise or a report issued by an auditor/audit firm registered in the State Register of Auditors/Audit (Audit) Firms, determined by the Agency's Board of Directors, and produced by the Accounting, Reporting and Audit Supervision Service, a state sub-agency within the system of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, confirming the fulfillment of the purpose of installing a drip irrigation system.

Note: Information about the above-mentioned auditors and audit firms will be published later.