Anjo City Fig & Pear Orchard Business Succession Support Program

(1) Overview: Anjo City's unique agricultural support program subsidizing replanting and equipment costs associated with the business succession of fig and pear orchards within city limits. Business succession means the applicant acquires ownership, lease, loan-for-use or other beneficial-use rights over the target orchard. The program aims to support generational transitions in fruit farming and maintain the local production area. (2) Eligible applicants: Farmers and farmland-holding qualified corporations operating orchards within Anjo City. The applicant must have succeeded (or be about to succeed) at least 5 ares of orchard per management entity. Succession must occur within 2 years prior to the application year, within the application year, or be certain by the end of the year following the application year (in which case a succession agreement must be attached). (3) Eligible expenses: (a) Replanting costs - heavy machinery rental and transport for stump removal, deep tilling, ground leveling; outsourcing fees; tree disposal costs; new fruit seedling purchases; soil improvement. Grafting is excluded. (b) Equipment / materials - new construction, renovation, repair, or material purchases for fruit trellises, bird/insect/wind nets, irrigation. Machinery and tool purchases are excluded. (4) Subsidy rate / cap / schedule / key points: Subsidy rate is 1/2 of eligible expenses. Cap: JPY 200,000 per management entity for replanting; JPY 500,000 per management entity for equipment/materials. Submission deadline: end of December Reiwa 8. Submission to: branches of Aichi Chuo Agricultural Cooperative. Only one application per orchard per succession. Cannot be combined with the Fig & Pear Management Improvement Support Program nor with national/prefectural/other municipal subsidies covering the same costs.