What is “Multifunctional Payment Grants”? How to receive subsidies for farmland, waterway, and farm road maintenance projects, etc.

Farmers who are considering mowing farmland slopes, mucking up waterways, and maintaining farm road surfaces may be eligible for grants from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, depending on the conditions.

This section provides a detailed and easy-to-understand summary of the subsidy system called “Multifunctional Payment Grants,” including the conditions for support, how to receive the grants, and examples of use.

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The “Multifunctional Function Payment Grant” is a grant system established to support joint community activities for maintaining and demonstrating the multifunctional capabilities of agriculture and farming villages, and to promote appropriate conservation and management of local resources. In response to rural depopulation and a decrease in the number of farmers, they will support activities that support multifunctional functions and qualitative improvement of local resources (farmland, waterways, farm roads, etc.) that are carried out jointly by the community.

Each eligible project is divided into the following two grants, which differ in terms of eligible organizations, etc.

• Agricultural Land Maintenance Payment Grants
• Resource Consolidation Payment Grants

Outline of Agricultural Land Maintenance Payment Grants

On the other hand, “Resource Improvement Payment Grants” are defined as “support for joint activities to improve the quality of local resources and to extend the service life of facilities.

The following are eligible for support here

• Activities to repair cracks and extend service life of waterways
• Activities to repair and extend the life of depressions in farm roads
• Landscape formation and biotope creation through planting
• Widening and strengthening of the organization

Organizations eligible for multifunctional payment grants

In order to implement activities utilizing the grant, either an “activity organization” or a “wide-area activity organization” must be established. An “activity organization” is defined as follows

1. Organizations composed exclusively of farmers
2. Organizations composed of farmers and others (local residents, organizations, etc.)

(Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries website)

(Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries website)

Projects eligible for multifunctional payment grants, such as farmland, waterway, and farm road management

Support is available for the annual inspection of facilities, formulation of annual activity plans, and implementation of practical activities (mowing of farmland slopes, mucking up of waterways, maintenance of farm road surfaces, etc. based on the plans) for farmland, waterways, farm roads, and other facilities.

Promotion activities for appropriate conservation and management of local resources

Support is available for the formulation of a vision for the future, setting goals for the conservation and management of local resources through discussion and implementation of actions in line with these goals.

(Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries website)

Support is available for annual functional diagnosis and repair of agricultural land, waterways, and farm roads. In addition to repair work, support includes the following activities

• Planning and functional diagnosis
• Practical Activities (Construction)
• induction course

Support is available for activities to conserve the rural environment, such as ecosystem conservation and landscape formation, which are multifaceted functions of agriculture and farming villages, if a theme is selected and implemented each fiscal year.

This is for the following activities

• planning
• Awareness-raising and dissemination
• Practical Activities

 

Activities to promote multifunctional activities

If you wish to increase the efficiency of your activities by enlarging your organization or making your organization a non-profit organization, assistance is available.

Agricultural land subject to multifunctional payment grants