What can the grant be used for?
The Welsh Small Grants Efficiency Scheme supports capital investments in equipment and technology that have been pre-identified as offering clear and quantifiable benefits to your farm business. The capital items have been specified, along with a referenced cost for each item.
Some examples of what Te Pari Products that the grant can be used for are: Cattle Handling Systems, Cattle Crushes, Electronic Weigh Systems, Sheep Handlers, Sheep Handling Systems, Auto EID Dosing Guns and EID Readers.
Who can apply?
- You must are registered with the Welsh Government and have been issued with a Customer Reference Number (CRN).
- You must be a primary producer of agricultural products
- have 3ha of eligible agricultural land registered with RPW in Wales or
- be able to demonstrate over 550 standard labour hours
The primary production of agricultural products includes the following farming sectors: arable, beef, dairy, goats, horticulture (including hydroponics and aquaponics), pigs, poultry, sheep, apiculture.
You are not eligible if:
- you are an equine customer (including grazing horses)
- you are a forestry customer (including woodland only owners)
- a group of farmers (including Producer Organisations) however, if two or more agricultural holdings are managed as a single unit, or in a single ownership, or to some extent have common management, common financial accounts, common livestock, machinery and/or feeding stores that will be classed as a single business.
- You must not use items purchased through Small Grants – Efficiency for agricultural contracting activities.
