Must-see for farmers│Three grants to improve management and specific examples of their introduction

Did you know that the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) offers various grant programs to support the strengthening and development of agriculture?

This system is not properly understood or well known because it “looks kind of difficult,” but it may be of great help to your business. We hope that you will correctly understand and make good use of these grants, so we will introduce three typical agriculture-related grants in this article.

Please check the following pages for an overview of each grant and examples of actual use of each grant to see if it is applicable to your own situation.

(Agricultural canal repaired with “Concrete Canvas”)

Next, we will introduce a case study of actual use of the “Comprehensive Support Grant for Creating Strong Agriculture and Leaders of the Industry,” which provides financial support for efforts to introduce agricultural machinery and facilities with the aim of enhancing profitability. A business in Yamagata Prefecture that grows maitake mushrooms used a grant to create a “tent warehouse” as a mycorrhizal tent.

A mushroom producer in Mogami County, Yamagata Prefecture, utilized the “Comprehensive Support Grant for Creating Strong Agriculture and Leaders” to install a tent warehouse to be used as a mycorrhizal bed production and seed cultivation facility.

In this case, the “Support Type for Key Industrial Facilities” was used out of the three types of the Comprehensive Support Grant for Creating Strong Agriculture and Bearers of Agriculture. Since the subsidy is limited to equipment with a useful life of 5 years or more, conventional plastic greenhouses are not eligible, so a “tent” was introduced, which is treated as a building.

As can be seen from the photos below, tent warehouses can provide light inside to reduce lighting and electricity costs, and the nature of the material also allows them to block out a moderate amount of ultraviolet rays and sunlight.

This tent warehouse is a product called “Flex House” by Taiyo Kogyo Corporation. Flex House” is characterized by a shorter construction period than conventional warehouses and system construction warehouses, which allows for cost reductions, and is more durable than conventional tents, etc. In addition, the “titanium oxide photocatalytic coating film” using photocatalytic technology provides extremely high antifouling performance.

For more information or to inquire about Flex, please visit the following links
> “Flex House” by Taiyo Kogyo Corporation