Investment support for vertically integrated production businesses and organised producer schemes

Primary production creates greater value when it is connected to a clear commercial direction, standardisation, packaging, cold chain, processing or access to markets. For vertically integrated production businesses and organised producer schemes, an investment is not only about production in the field. It is about how the product will be harvested, preserved, standardised, packed, moved and positioned commercially.

Growplan supports investment projects that connect primary production with a broader growth strategy: processing, packaging, cold chain, storage, commercial organisation and export orientation.
In these projects, the key issue is not only eligibility for a funding programme. What matters is to properly capture the production base, seasonality, capacity, product quality, post-harvest needs, cold storage requirements, packaging needs and connection to target markets.
Growplan helps the business or producer group structure the investment before it becomes a dossier. We assess feasibility, investment logic, the financial model, the funding route and the conditions for technical or organisational maturation, depending on the project and the agreed scope of collaboration.

The Growplan difference is that we do not view primary production in isolation from the rest of the value chain. We connect it with what happens next: sorting, standardisation, cold storage, warehousing, packaging, processing, distribution and sales.
This means that a vertical integration investment is not treated as a simple purchase of equipment or infrastructure. It is treated as a project that must serve production capacity, commercial positioning and the future growth of the business.

Indicative projects:

• dynamic crops and fresh fruit and vegetables,
• berries and red fruits,
• vertical integration of production,
• producer groups and producer organisations with an investment plan,
• export-oriented investments,
• sorting, standardisation, cold storage, warehousing and packaging infrastructure.

Every production scheme has a different base, different capacity and a different market. Let’s discuss your project and define the right investment route together.

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