The RDPE Growth Programme offers grant funding for a range projects including farm diversification into non-agricultural activities. Read the piece that we wrote last year about the programme. The original January deadline to submit expressions of interest to apply for a grant has been extended to 31 May 2018. The final date to submit claims has also been moved forward to 31 December 2020.
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Graphene from slurry
For those with an interest in these things there was a story on the Farming Programme this morning about a “world first”