The purpose of the calls for aid for young farmers is to improve the viability of farms and the competitiveness of all types of agriculture, to promote innovative agricultural technologies and to ensure a generational change by supporting young farmers and stockbreeders to establish themselves in the countryside. This aid is co-financed by the Ministries of Agriculture of the Autonomous Communities and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD). It is a State resource that offers economic contributions based on objective criteria. These requirements seek to guarantee equality among the candidates who apply for this aid. Therefore, the requirements to be a young farmer must be fulfilled for the enjoyment of this support.
We will expand on this point, since this is what we are interested in. The following is a list of the requirements that we must meet as individuals:
On the other hand, as legal entities, we must also meet the following requirements to be a young farmer:
Once we meet these requirements to be young farmers we will be able to submit our single application for these subsidies. It will be accompanied by a business plan and all the documents that justify the fulfillment of the requirements.
Each Autonomous Community is responsible for deciding the budgets and calls for aid for its young farmers, in accordance with the Rural Development Plan 2014-2020.