The operative truth
Terms
| Administering body | Regional agriculture departments |
|---|---|
| Instrument type | Grants |
| Tier | Regional Instruments |
| Ceiling | €1,000,000–4,000,000 depending on region |
| Coverage | 35–50% |
| Cost of money | n/a |
| Term | 5-year stability obligation |
| Earliest reachable | Month 8 |
| Application to cash | 240–450 days |
Who qualifies
Enterprises transforming or marketing agricultural products, including farms adding processing and cooperatives.
What it funds
Processing plant, packing lines, cold storage, laboratory equipment, and the buildings that house them.
What disqualifies an applicant
What it stacks with
These instruments combine with this one. Grants generally cannot double-fund the same cost, but different components of the same project may each carry their own support, and tax credits stack more freely with grants than grants do with each other.
Farm Investment Support
Active agricultural undertakings making productive investments in the holding.
Supply Chain and District Contracts
Partnerships along an agri-food supply chain — producers, processors, distributors — with a lead applicant.
SME Guarantee Fund
Small and medium enterprises including sole traders and agricultural undertakings. New enterprises qualify; the guarantee exists precisely to…
Transition 5.0 Tax Credit
Enterprises investing in digital capital goods that deliver a certified reduction in energy consumption.
Ventures this funds
6 venture types in the atlas list this instrument in their capital stack.
Farmhouse Cheese Dairy (Caseificio)
On-farm transformation of your own milk into fresh and aged cheese sold direct and to specialist retail.
8–16 months
Cured Meats Workshop (Salumificio)
Small-batch curing of regional salumi from local pigs, aged on site and sold under a traceable estate label.
14–26 months
Chestnut Grove and Flour Milling
Recovery of idle chestnut groves for fresh nuts, dried chestnuts and stone-ground flour.
10–20 months
Tomato and Passata Transformation
Field tomatoes transformed on site into passata, peeled tomatoes and concentrate under an estate label.
9–16 months
Essential Oil Distillation
Steam distillation of aromatic plants into essential oils and hydrosols for cosmetic and food use.
6–14 months
Cold Chain and Shared Storage
Refrigerated and ambient storage available to small producers who cannot build their own.
8–18 months
Note on sources. This page is generated from the VentureItalica research registry. Figures and legal references reflect the corpus as verified at the last review and are indicative rather than advice. Instruments change; always confirm the current call text with the administering body before acting.
