Countryside Productivity Scheme

Prodata 12th October 2020

The Rural Development Programme for England provides money for projects to improve agriculture, the environment and rural life and the RDPE has announced a new tranche of grants towards equipment purchases that will allow eligible farmers to in stall new weather stations and environmental monitoring systems.

The Countryside Productivity Small Grant Scheme is available to help achieve improvements in either:

Technical efficiency
Animal health and welfare
Resource efficiency
Nutrient management

The closing date for applications is 4th November 2020 so don’t delay in checking whether you might be eligible.

Apply here.

Further details can be found in a new blog post.

We often have small background development projects that we'd like to pursue but that we don't have time to resource fully. Please email us if you might be interested in collaborating on these - more details on request. We'd like to hear from anyone able to call in (to Ely - near Cambridge) for a chat in person and who might have skills/interests in weather data and/or programming. These are typically small projects that might be of interest to hobbyists but which are non-commercial in nature. So, in general, we're not in a position to offer employment or substantive payment, but what we can do is to offer ideas, discussion and eg the loan of hardware to anyone who might be interested in collaborating in a worthwhile hobby project. However, there might be the possibility of some modest quid pro quo and if any projects prove unexpectedly successful then we'd be happy to discuss options for further joint development & marketing.