The second call for proposals of the grants scheme for the creation, modernization, and digital upgrade of processing or marketing units of agricultural products has been approved by the Ministerial Council, announced by the Minister of Energy, Commerce, and Industry, George Papanastasiou, on Wednesday.
\nSpeaking after the Ministerial Council meeting at the Presidential Palace, Papanastasiou stated that they approved, upon the proposal of his Ministry, the second call for proposals of the grants scheme for the creation, modernization, and digital upgrade of processing or marketing units of agricultural products.
\nThe Scheme falls within the Recovery and Resilience Plan for the period 2021-2026 and amounts to \u20ac25 million, he added. He said that this Scheme aims to support existing and new small and medium-sized enterprises, as defined in an annex which interested parties can see in the guide that will be available this week.
\nAccording to Papanastasiou, in the first call, approximately \u20ac3 million had been saved, which will be used in this second call.
\nHe noted that applications can only be completed by beneficiaries through the electronic system of the Ministry of Energy, Commerce, and Industry.
\nResponding to a journalist\u2019s question, he said that it does not necessarily concern only companies but also cooperatives, while the Scheme will cover beekeepers as well.
\nFor more information, interested parties can contact the Ministry, he said.grants scheme for agricultural units. grants scheme, agricultural products, digital upgrade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Ministerial Council approved the second call for proposals of the grants scheme for the creation, modernization, and digital upgrade of processing or marketing units of agricultural products, as announced by the Minister of Energy, Commerce, and Industry, George Papanastasiou. This scheme is part of the Recovery and Resilience Plan for 2021-2026 and has a budget of \u20ac25 million. It aims to support existing and new small and medium-sized enterprises. Approximately \u20ac3 million saved from the first call will be used in this second call. Applications must be submitted through the electronic system of the Ministry of Energy, Commerce, and Industry. The scheme is also open to cooperatives and beekeepers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1834,1766,33,3,1835,358,1831,1833,910,148,1768,1346,519,1832,1358,114,42],"class_list":["post-4089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-agricultural-products","tag-budget","tag-companies","tag-cyprus","tag-digital-upgrade","tag-energy","tag-farming","tag-grants-scheme","tag-journalist","tag-local","tag-marketing","tag-meeting","tag-recovery-and-resilience-plan","tag-subsidies","tag-support","tag-top-news","tag-upgrade"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n