SRD01 Agricultural Productive Investments for Competitiveness – 3rd Call for Applications

The initiative aims to boost the competitiveness of agricultural businesses in the markets and to increase their profitability, whilst at the same time improving their climate and environmental performance. These objectives will be pursued through the modernisation of farm facilities, increased productivity and the adjustment of the structure of farm costs and revenues.

The measure contributes to the achievement of the general objectives set out in points (a) and (b) of Article 5 and the following objectives of Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115:

• SO2 Improving market orientation and increasing the competitiveness of the agricultural holding in the short and long term, including through a greater focus on research, technology and digitalisation.
• SO5 To promote sustainable development and the efficient management of natural resources such as water, soil and air, including through a reduction in reliance on chemicals.
• XCO Cross-cutting objective of modernising the sector by promoting and sharing knowledge, innovations and digitalisation processes in agriculture and rural areas, and encouraging their use.

The specific objectives set out for the intervention are:

a) enhancing the value of land assets (land improvement and consolidation, improvement and/or new construction of production facilities) and farm equipment;

b) improving climate, environmental and animal welfare performance, including through the reduction and optimisation of the use of production inputs (including energy supply for self-consumption), the reduction and sustainable management of production residues, and the removal and disposal of asbestos and asbestos-cement;

c) improvement of product characteristics and diversification of production in line with market demands;

d) the introduction of technical and managerial innovation in production processes through investment in digital technology;

e) adding value to the farm’s agricultural produce through the processing, transformation and marketing (including preservation/storage and packaging) of products, including within local and/or short supply chains.

For aid applications where the requested expenditure is less than €300,000.00, the investment project must be signed by the applicant; whereas for aid applications where the requested expenditure is equal to or greater than €300,000.00, the investment project must be drawn up and signed by a qualified and competent professional in accordance with the professional regulations recognised by current legislation.

Where required to carry out the planned works, a valid planning permission must be held to demonstrate that the project is ready for construction. This permission must be held on the date of the grant application, or obtained and documented within 60 days of the date of notification that the application has been placed in a qualifying position on the ranking list.

For grant applications exceeding €300,000.00, the financial viability of the investment must be demonstrated by a positive assessment from a credit institution regarding the granting of a loan or medium-term financing covering at least 50 per cent of the requested expenditure.

Failure to meet any of the requirements for the project will result in the application being deemed ineligible for support.

On the date of submission of the grant application, each applicant is required to create and keep up to date their electronic company file in accordance with Presidential Decree No. 503/99, as amended and supplemented. The business file comprises all the information declared by the business, which is checked, verified and unequivocally confirmed through the SIGC.

Within the scope of the specific objectives, the following investment operations are eligible:

1. Production facilities;

2. Land improvement works (land improvements);

3. Farm access roads, farm electrification and drainage systems;

4. Supply of energy from renewable sources for the farm’s needs;

5. Covered structures;

6. Facilities for the handling, processing, storage and marketing of the farm’s agricultural produce.

Further information regarding eligibility criteria, eligible and ineligible expenditure, selection criteria and procedures for submitting aid applications is available in the text of the call for applications approved by Provincial Council Resolution No. 1854 of 28 November 2025.

The total public expenditure for Measure SRD01 for the 2025 financial year under the 2023–2027 programming period is €2,501,728.39.

1. Support is provided in the form of a capital grant. The amount of support is set out in the table below:

2. The minimum amount of eligible expenditure per aid application is €30,000.00 excluding VAT, both at the grant stage and at the final payment stage.

3. The maximum limit on eligible expenditure per aid application is €700,000.00 excluding VAT.

4. The maximum eligible expenditure per beneficiary and programming period is €700,000.00 excluding VAT. This limit must also be complied with by livestock farms or mixed farms with a predominance of livestock farming (calculated in terms of hours based on the time table) which are eligible for both this SRD01 measure and the SRD02 measure. The calculation of the maximum eligible expenditure limit for such holdings must take into account the sum of all eligible expenditure relating to investment operations under both schemes, up to a maximum of €1,000,000.00 excluding VAT, provided that, under Measure SRD01, the total allocation per beneficiary and programming period may not exceed €700,000.00.

5. In the case of applications submitted by farmers who have reached the age of 65 by the date of submission of the grant application, the maximum eligible expenditure is €100,000.00 excluding VAT. In the case of companies and business associations, this provision applies if the average age of the members is over 65 years.

6 The specific expenditure limits per investment operation are set out in the paragraphs relating to those operations.

 Demarcation (double funding)

1. This measure provides guidance on the compatibility of the investments envisaged in the PSP’s investment operations with other European Union financial instruments.

2. Please refer to the tables contained in Annex 2 of Resolution No. 1854/2025 regarding compatibility with other financial instruments and with the SRG06 – LEADER intervention – implementation of local development strategies.

Cumulation of aid

Expenditure financed under this measure may not benefit from any other funding through European Union financial instruments.

For the same expenditure, support may be received under national State aid schemes (national or regional) only if the total cumulative amount granted through the various forms of support does not exceed the maximum aid intensity or the aid amount applicable to the type of intervention in question, in accordance with the provisions of Title III of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115.

State aid

The intervention does not fall outside the scope of Article 42 TFEU and is not subject to State aid assessment.

Selection of aid applications

The requirements for the award of points must be met by the applicant at the time of submitting the aid application.

The ranking list for access to grants for the aid applications submitted is drawn up on the basis of scores awarded as specified in point 6 of Resolution No 1854/2025.

Eligible beneficiaries are agricultural entrepreneurs, whether individual or in association, who, pursuant to Article 2135 of the Civil Code, carry out activities involving the cultivation of land, forestry, animal husbandry (limited to dairy and beef cattle farming), and related activities, and who hold an agricultural VAT number and are registered with the Chamber of Commerce (CCIAA) as of the date of submission of the application.
An exemption from registration with the Chamber of Commerce applies to young farmers who have submitted an application under Measure SRE01 of the Rural Development Programme (PSP) and have not yet completed the setting-up process. 

All production sectors linked to the production of the products listed in Annex I to the TFEU are eligible for support, with the exception of:

1. fisheries and aquaculture products;
2. wildlife breeding;
3. the livestock sector, with the exception of the dairy and beef sectors, for which only the following investment operations are permitted:

• “Production facilities”, limited to storage facilities for machinery and equipment;
• “Facilities for the handling, processing, storage and marketing of the farm’s agricultural produce”. For projects in the dairy sector only, the grant is limited to:

1. farms operating in the sheep and goat sector;
2. farms certified as organic in respect of the entire sector covered by the funding and with a final product certified as organic;
3. agritourism operators or, alternatively, businesses holding a planning permission authorising a project for agritourism purposes;
4. farms operating in the cattle sector with a maximum herd size of 20 Uba.

To submit an application, you must:

- have a digital signature;

- the person submitting the application (the applicant or the appointed adviser) must register on the portal, as specified on thisweb page

The application must be digitally signed by the person authorised to sign the document; otherwise, it will be deemed inadmissible.

For any assistance with accessing and registering on the portal, please contacthelpdesk.srtrento@provincia.tn.it.

Only one application for aid may be submitted

The following constitute grounds for the application to be deemed inadmissible:

1. failure to meet the deadlines for submitting applications;
2. the absence of information enabling the applicant to be unequivocally identified;
3. failure by the legal representative to sign the application;
4. submission of applications in a manner other than that set out above;
5. applications signed by a person other than the legal representative or an expressly authorised delegate, or applications that are unsigned.

Applications must be submitted online via the provincial agricultural information system SRTrento by 31 March 2026. Access to the members’ area is restricted to registered users only.

SRTrento can also be accessed via the portalhttps://a4g.provincia.tn.it/.

For details of the documentation to be attached to the aid application, please refer to paragraph 7.2 of Provincial Council Resolution No. 1854/2025. 

Deadline for submitting applications: 31 March 2026.

PROCEDURAL PROCESS

The procedure for granting or refusing the grant is structured as follows:

1. an approval process, in which the Head of the Agriculture Department draws up a merit-based ranking of applications submitted within 45 days from the day following the deadline for submission of applications;

2. notification to the applicant by the person responsible for the procedure of their position on the ranking list eligible for funding, any request to rectify or supplement the documentation for the purposes of the preliminary assessment, and a request for the estimated bill of quantities in digital format as a spreadsheet file (.xls, .xlsx, .odf);

3. Alternatively, the applicant will be notified of their position on the ranking list as ineligible for funding;

4. the procedure concludes with a decision by the Head of the Agriculture Department, within 120 days of the approval of the ranking list (the deadline for the administrative procedure), to grant or refuse the grant to the applicant. The decision to grant the grant may, where justified, be subject to conditions and restrictions relating to the specific investment project;

5. Notification of the grant or refusal of the grant.