Small farmers from 8 regions will be able to take advantage of a grant program for berry farming from the FAO.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will launch grants for small berry farmers in the Volyn, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Ternopil, Chernivtsi, Khmelnytskyi, and Dnipropetrovsk regions. This is reported by jagodnik.info. It is known that grants will be available to producers engaged in open-field cultivation on an area of 1 to 20 hectares, in closed-field cultivation on an area of 0.3 to 5 hectares, with a total land bank not exceeding 100 hectares and registered in the DAR (State Agrarian Register) system. Grant funds can be spent on greenhouses, fertigation systems, irrigation, refrigeration equipment, equipment for harvesting and processing crops, equipment for increasing food safety, for setting up laboratories, processing facilities, and also for solar power plants. The size of the financial investment for such producers will be up to $25,000. With the received grant funds, it will also be possible to purchase processing, ...