Rural Development Program (RDP)

Subsidy programs intended for farmers, food producers and foresters

Investment in agricultural primary production

Supported activities:

Investments in agricultural buildings and technologies for livestock production (support applies to the breeding of cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, poultry, rabbits and horses).

Investments in agricultural buildings and technologies for plant production and nursery production.

Purchase of special mobile machines for agricultural production.

Subsidy amount:

40% of eligible expenses (+ 10% for young beginning farmers, + 10% for LFA areas), minimum amount of eligible expenses 100,000, max. 150 million CZK.

Information:

The project must be implemented outside of Prague.

Expenditures on special mobile machinery for animal production can make up a maximum of 49% of the expenses from which the subsidy is determined.

The amount of the subsidy is also limited by the maximum limits for specific types of expenses.

The subject of the subsidy must not be used only for the provision of services.

Investment in non-agricultural activities - diversification

Supported activities:

Investments in the establishment or development of non-agricultural activities leading to the diversification of the income of agricultural entrepreneurs and the creation of new jobs.

Subsidy amount:

25% (VP), 35% (SP), 45% (MP) of eligible expenses, minimum amount of eligible expenses 200 thousand CZK, max. CZK 10 million.

Information:

The project must be implemented outside of Prague, Pilsen, Liberec, Brno and Ostrava.

The applicant shows min. 30% of income from primary agricultural production in proportion to total income for the last accounting period or farms in the forest with a minimum area of 10 ha.

Supported activities are manufacturing, construction, wholesale and retail.

Agrotourism

Supported activities:

Building renovation or new construction of a small-capacity accommodation facility (6 – 40 beds), including furnishing the premises.

Subsidy amount:

25% (VP), 35% (SP), 45% (MP) of eligible expenses, minimum amount of eligible expenses 200 thousand CZK, max. CZK 10 million.

Information:

The project must be implemented outside of Prague, Pilsen, Liberec, Brno and Ostrava.

The applicant shows min. 30% of income from primary agricultural production in proportion to total income for the last accounting period or farms in the forest with a minimum area of 3 ha.

The subject of the project must not be a separate catering facility. A catering facility can only be built as part of an accommodation facility/area of an accommodation facility with stable beds and must be the subject of one project together with the costs of the accommodation facility.

Investments to support energy from renewable sources

Supported activities:

Investment in equipment for the production of shaped biofuels and the construction of a new biogas station (BPS) processing farmyard manure (slurry and pig manure) with a maximum installed power of 500 kW.

Subsidy amount:

BPS: 60% (VP), 70% (SP), 80% (MP) of eligible expenses, minimum amount of eligible expenses 200 thousand CZK, max. CZK 50 million.

Biofuels: 25% (VP), 35% (SP), 45% (MP) of eligible expenses, minimum amount of eligible expenses 200 thousand CZK, max. CZK 10 million.

Information:

The project must be implemented outside of Prague, Pilsen, Liberec, Brno and Ostrava.

Most of the fuel or energy produced by the applicant (more than 50%) must be sold or used for non-agricultural activities.

The applicant shows min. 30% of income from primary agricultural production in proportion to total income for the last accounting period or farms in the forest with a minimum area of 10 ha.

Investments in the processing of agricultural products

Supported activities:

Investments in equipment for the production of food and feed, for the final treatment, packaging and labeling of products, in storage (including construction and renovation of buildings), investments related to placing products on the market, investments in equipment for the treatment of waste water in the processing operation.

Subsidy amount:

40% of eligible expenses, 35-45% for bakers, confectioners and other flour manufacturers, minimum amount of eligible expenses 100 thousand CZK, max. CZK 30 million.

Information:

The project must be implemented outside of Prague.

The processing must not concern fishery products and honey, in the case of feed production, the output product is limited to feed intended for livestock (with the exception of fish).

Subsidy cannot be provided for technologies for sorting, cooling, marking and storing eggs.

The subsidy cannot be provided for the purchase of real estate.

The subsidy applicant/recipient must meet the definition of a micro, small, medium-sized enterprise (SME) until the date of signing the Subsidy Agreement, it must not become a large enterprise.

Forestry infrastructure, technique and technology

Supported activities:

Investments related to the reconstruction and construction of forest roads, including related buildings and technical equipment.

Machines, technologies (including horses) and equipment for restoration, education and extraction of forest stands, including approximation, for soil preparation before afforestation, for nursery activities.

Subsidy amount:

Forest roads: 80% of eligible expenses.

minimum amount of eligible expenses 10 thousand CZK, max. CZK 8 million.

Engineering and technology: 50% of eligible expenses, minimum amount of eligible expenses 10,000. CZK, max. CZK 9 million.

Information:

The project must be implemented outside of Prague.

Subsidies cannot be provided for the construction or repair of category 3L and 4L forest roads.

The forest road project can only be implemented where the forest and infrastructure are freely accessible to the public for recreational purposes.

Support applies only to machines that are intended for farming on land intended to fulfill forest functions.

Forestry

Supported activities:

Preventive measures - construction and repair of retention reservoirs and stream dams, preventive flood measures on small watercourses and in their catchment areas, e.g. increasing the capacity of the watercourse bed, stabilizing the bed, securing the banks.

Measures to strengthen the recreational function of the forest, e.g. marking, construction and reconstruction of paths for tourists up to 2 meters wide and significant natural features, construction of game and educational elements, fitness elements, establishment of rest areas, shelters, information boards, barriers, waste disposal facilities , etc.

Machines, technologies (including horses) and equipment for restoration, education and extraction of forest stands, including approximation, for soil preparation before afforestation, for nursery activities.

Subsidy amount:

100% of the eligible expenses in the case of preventive measures and recreational functions of the forest.

50% of eligible expenses in the case of technology and technology.

Information:

Revitalized green areas are defined in the spatial plan as green areas in public spaces or separately defined as green areas or defined within the residential green system or as areas whose conditions of use ensure protection against development and enable use as green areas. The exception is the revitalization of elements of greenery and linear plantings along roads and waterways, which do not have to be separately defined in the spatial plan.

The municipality has a minimum population of 500 on the date of application.