Guidelines for the Application for Agricultural Comprehensive Development Industrialization Operation Projects Issued in 2016
News of October 16: In order to better select the best options and encourage eligible leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization, farmers' professional cooperatives and specialized large households, family farms, agricultural socialized service organizations, and other new types of agricultural operation entities to apply for the 2016 National Agricultural Comprehensive Development Industrialization Operation Projects, the Ministry of Finance issued the Guidelines for the Application for the 2016 National Agricultural Comprehensive Development Industrialization Operation Projects.
In principle, the 2016 National Agricultural Comprehensive Development Industrialization Operation Projects must conform to the Plan for Supporting Agriculture's Dominant and Characteristic Industries through Agricultural Comprehensive Development (2016-2018), and mainly include: planting and breeding base projects such as economic forests and protected agriculture, livestock, poultry, and aquaculture; processing projects foragricultural products such as grain and oil, fruits and vegetables, and livestock and poultry; and circulation facility projects such as agricultural product storage and preservation and origin wholesale markets. For the dominant and characteristic agricultural industries supported by agricultural comprehensive development in 2016, each county-level unit shall have no more than 2, of which the counties (cities, districts, divisions, and sub-bureaus) of municipalities directly under the Central Government, cities with separate state planning, Hainan Province, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the Heilongjiang State Farms Bureau, and the Guangdong Province State Farms Bureau shall have no more than 3.
According to the guidelines, the amount of fiscal funds applied for by a single fiscal subsidy project shall not exceed the amount of self-raised funds, and the loan amount for a single loan interest subsidy project shall generally not exceed 100 million yuan. Listed companies and their holding companies are encouraged to invest in the construction of raw material bases and processing bases in production areas of dominant and characteristic agricultural products.