Project Description

Young Farmers Installation Prize

PEPAC

This support is aimed at the generational renewal of the agricultural fabric and the installation of young farmers who contribute to the sector. The objectives are to promote entrepreneurship, innovation and the adoption of new skills and more sustainable management practices, in order to improve agri-environmental performance standards. The Young Farmer Installation Award also aims to promote gender equality through positive discrimination against women, as well as job creation in rural areas. 

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Support Status

Open

Financing

Up to 55.000€ Lost Fund

Territory

Continental Portugal

Eligible Entities

Young Farmers
Legal Persons
(Managing Partner Young Farmer)

Young Farmers Installation Prize

PEPAC

This support is aimed at the generational renewal of the agricultural fabric and the installation of young farmers who contribute to the sector. The objectives are to promote entrepreneurship, innovation and the adoption of new skills and more sustainable management practices, in order to improve agri-environmental performance standards. The Young Farmer Installation Award also aims to promote gender equality through positive discrimination against women, as well as job creation in rural areas. 

Download the Infosheet

Support Status

Open

Financing

Up to 55.000€ Lost Fund

Territory

Continental Portugal

Eligible Entities

Young Farmers
Legal Persons
(Managing Partner Young Farmer)

Incentive Conditions

  • This notice aims to:
    • Attract and support young farmers (JA) and other new farmers and facilitate the sustainable development of businesses in rural areas;
    • Promote employment, growth, gender equality, including the participation of women in the agricultural sector, social inclusion and local development in rural areas, including the circular bioeconomy and sustainable forestry.
  • This intervention contributes to the following PEPAC targets:
    • Number of young farmers setting up, broken down by gender
    • Creation of new jobs.

  • Continental Portugal.

  • Natural persons who, at the time of submitting the application, are between 18 and 40 years old, inclusive, and are setting up for the first time;
  • Legal entities in the form of a private limited company with agricultural activities as part of their corporate purpose, provided that all the managing partners are young farmers, hold the majority of the share capital and have an individual shareholding of more than 25%.
  • NOTE: When submitting an application under this notice, the applicant is simultaneously submitting an application for the AGPEPACC notice / Notice 01/C.2.2.2/2024 – Productive Investment Young Farmers, using the same form. In this situation, the applicant must meet all the eligibility criteria for both types of application in order for the application to be approved.

  • Young farmer setting up for the first time;
  • Have adequate agricultural training or undertake to start it within 12 months of setting up;
  • Existence of a five-year Business Plan that is technically, economically and financially coherent, which must include:
    • A description of the farm’s initial situation;
    • Demonstration of the farm’s production potential;
    • Indication of the stages and goals for the development of the farm’s activities;
    • A description of all the investments to be made; A detailed description of the actions needed to develop the farm’s activities, namely those related to environmental sustainability and efficiency in the use of resources, agricultural advice and training.

  • 1- The support to be granted takes the form of a fixed amount of €25,000, plus the following amounts:
    • 25,000 euros, if the young person sets up exclusively;
    • 5,000 euros, if the young farmer’s holding is located in vulnerable territories.
  • 2 – In the case of legal entities in which more than one young farmer participates, the Business Plan must present a minimum investment of 25,000 euros per managing partner;
  • 3 – In the case of applications submitted by legal persons, the support referred to in paragraph 2 shall be granted per managing partner;
  • 4 – The final amount of the installation premium is adjusted so that the combined incentive between the premium and the non-refundable support under typology C.2.2.2 “Productive investment by young farmers” does not exceed 120 % of the amount of eligible investment approved under that typology.

Incentive Conditions

This notice aims to:
Attract and support young farmers (JA) and other new farmers and facilitate the sustainable development of businesses in rural areas;
Promote employment, growth, gender equality, including the participation of women in the agricultural sector, social inclusion and local development in rural areas, including the circular bioeconomy and sustainable forestry.
This intervention contributes to the following PEPAC targets:
Number of young farmers setting up, broken down by gender
Creation of new jobs.

Continental Portugal.

Natural persons who, at the time of submitting the application, are between 18 and 40 years old, inclusive, and are setting up for the first time;
Legal entities in the form of a private limited company with agricultural activities as part of their corporate purpose, provided that all the managing partners are young farmers, hold the majority of the share capital and have an individual shareholding of more than 25%.
NOTE: When submitting an application under this notice, the applicant is simultaneously submitting an application for the AGPEPACC notice / Notice 01/C.2.2.2/2024 – Productive Investment Young Farmers, using the same form. In this situation, the applicant must meet all the eligibility criteria for both types of application in order for the application to be approved.

Young farmer setting up for the first time;
Have adequate agricultural training or undertake to start it within 12 months of setting up;
Existence of a five-year Business Plan that is technically, economically and financially coherent, which must include:
A description of the farm’s initial situation;
Demonstration of the farm’s production potential;
Indication of the stages and goals for the development of the farm’s activities;
A description of all the investments to be made; A detailed description of the actions needed to develop the farm’s activities, namely those related to environmental sustainability and efficiency in the use of resources, agricultural advice and training.

1- The support to be granted takes the form of a fixed amount of €25,000, plus the following amounts:
25,000 euros, if the young person sets up exclusively;
5,000 euros, if the young farmer’s holding is located in vulnerable territories.
2 – In the case of legal entities in which more than one young farmer participates, the Business Plan must present a minimum investment of 25,000 euros per managing partner;
3 – In the case of applications submitted by legal persons, the support referred to in paragraph 2 shall be granted per managing partner;
4 – The final amount of the installation premium is adjusted so that the combined incentive between the premium and the non-refundable support under typology C.2.2.2 “Productive investment by young farmers” does not exceed 120 % of the amount of eligible investment approved under that typology.

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