Sector No.

Project Sector

1

Ruminant livestock quality and health, forage production, and grassland pasture use and management improvement projects.

2

Field crops quality and yield improvement projects.

3

Vegetable crops quality and yield improvement projects.

4

Fruit trees quality and yield improvement projects.

5

Soil and water protection and/or conservation projects.

6

Village small scale rural infrastructure projects.

7

Food processing &/or marketing improvement projects at farm or village level.

8

Agricultural diversification/new rural income generation projects at farm or village level.

25 July 2005

State Planning Organisation

In order to be eligible for a grant, applicants must:

§         be primary agricultural producers registered with a Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) Farm Registration Number. Primary agricultural producers are not eligible individually, but as a Farmer Group. A farmer group for the purpose of this Call for proposals are defined as 10 or more farmers, with each individual farmer in the group with a different MARA Farm Registration Number, with existing and operational agricultural enterprises, and who collaborate to achieve shared aims, or    

§         Non-profit making legal persons include:

·         Non-governmental organisations; or

·         Local authorities (municipalities, special provincial administrations, village administrations (muhtarships) and their unions; or

·         Labour unions, public servants’ unions, employer unions and confederations of these unions: chambers of industry, commerce, agriculture and similar professional chambers and associations; foundations; or

·         Universities; or

·         Non-profit making training institutions, vocational schools; or

·         Non-profit SMEs including agricultural cooperatives and rural service unions.

In order to be eligible for grant, both Farmer group and non-profit legal persons must also meet the conditions that are set out below:

 §         must be registered/established and/or carrying out operations within the programme area (in Bitlis, or Hakkari, or Mus, or Van).

§         be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the project, not acting as an intermediary.

§         be experienced and have capacity to manage and implement the project corresponding the size of the project for which the grant is requested.

§         For the operating start-up (newly established) not for profit making legal persons, including the Non-profit SMEs excluding government entities, they have to prove that their organisations/companies are established; for farmer groups each individual farmer have to prove that their MARA registration date is at least three months prior to the deadline for submission of proposals.

for the purpose of the Call for proposals non-profit SMEs should demonstrate that their own operations are strictly non-profit making, by providing a provision in the Company Status which prohibits distribution of the profit to the shareholders. Or alternatively the company should demonstrate with an audit report covering the last three years (for newly established non-profit SMEs the latest available financial data) that profit has never been distributed to the shareholders and the Board of Directors should declare that profit will not be distributed to shareholders in the future (next 5 years). These commitments will be inserted into the eventual grant contract

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