Tbilisi. The European Neighbourhood Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development (ENPARD) awarded grants to 35 small cooperatives of farmers. The grants provide capital investments such as tractors, trucks, processing equipment and seedlings.

The grants were awarded following a selection process, to which over 700 small farmers' groups applied for ENPARD support. More than 200 among them have been pre-selected following strict criteria such as the businesses sustainability and the groups' cooperation record. These pre-selected groups have been trained in cooperative management and business planning.

Source: enpard.ge