England: Improving Farm Productivity Grant Round 2

The RPA has published guidance on the second round of the Improving Farm Productivity grant. Budgets of £15 million for each have been allocated for solar equipment and for automation and robotics.

Grants of between £15,000 and £100,000 will be available for farmers to fund a range of solar equipment, at an intervention rate of 25%. The grant will therefore be able to fund solar projects which have a total cost of between £60,000 and £400,000. For robotic and automated equipment, grants of between £25,000 and £500,000 at an intervention rate of 40% will enable projects valued between £62,500 and £1.25m.

An online application portal is due to be launched in mid-January and be open for applications for eight weeks.