FOGAIBA opens 12.2 million in grants to modernize agricultural holdings

The Agricultural and Fisheries Guarantee Fund of the Balearic Islands (FOGAIBA) has announced grants for investments in the modernization and improvement of agricultural holdings for the year 2026, with a total maximum allocation of 12,245,784.00 euros. The resolution is signed by the president of the organization, Joan Simonet Pons, with an electronic signature date of September 21, 2026, and is published in the Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands (BOIB) no. 122, of September 29, 2026, Section III, page 52634, under reference 9506. Applications may be submitted from the day after publication until November 20, 2026.

The call is framed within intervention 6841.2 of the CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027 (PEPAC), approved by the Commission Implementing Decision of August 31, 2022, and is governed by Article 73 of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115. The regulatory bases are Order 10/2023, of April 5, of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, published in BOIB no. 43, of April 6, 2023, modified by Order 10/2025, of April 14, of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Natural Environment (BOIB no. 48, of April 19, 2025).

Three lines of aid and shared funding

The budget is divided into three lines, charged to the FOGAIBA budgets for the years 2027 and 2028:

• Line A: 7,700,000.00 euros for requested investments exceeding 100,000.00 euros (4,000,000.00 euros in 2027 and 3,700,000.00 in 2028).
• Line B: 2,300,000.00 euros for investments of up to 100,000.00 euros (1,500,000.00 in 2027 and 800,000.00 in 2028).
• Line C: 2,245,784.00 euros for the specific group of the dairy cattle sector, with an improvement plan that allocates at least 80.00% of the eligible investment to this sector (1,500,000.00 in 2027 and 745,784.00 in 2028).

The funding is shared: 30.70% charged to the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), 6.14% by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA), and 63.16% by the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands. If any line does not exhaust its allocation, the remaining budget may be redistributed among the others according to demand.

Requirements, intensity and limits

Beneficiaries may be natural or legal persons and groups or collectives of farmers who meet, among others, the following requirements:

• Be 18 years of age or older and be the owner or co-owner of a holding registered in the Autonomous Registry of Agricultural Holdings (REA), with data updated within the last five years.
• Prove agricultural professional competence and qualification.
• Achieve a minimum score of 100.5 points out of a maximum of 402 (73 points out of 292 in line C).
• Have a minimum workload of 0.75 AWU in Mallorca, 0.75 AWU in Menorca, 0.5 AWU in Ibiza, and 0.3 AWU in Formentera.

The minimum eligible investment is 5,000.00 euros and the maximum is 70,000.00 euros per UTA. The limit per beneficiary person is 1,000,000.00 euros for lines A and C and 100,000.00 euros for line B; throughout the PEPAC period, the cap is 1,500,000.00 euros, extendable to 2,000,000.00 euros for cooperatives and agricultural transformation societies of more than 12 UTA. The base aid is 25.00% of the investment, with increases of 5, 10 or 20 percentage points for location, youth, organic or integrated production, irrigation and collective investments, among other conditions; the combined percentage cannot exceed 40.00%, nor 50.00% in the case of young farmers.

Deadlines, justification and advances

The eligibility period for investments begins on April 1, 2025, except for fees and deposits for machinery, which may start on January 1, 2025. The deadline for issuing and notifying the resolution is six months from the end of the application period, with negative administrative silence. The justification period is six months for the purchase of machinery and twelve months for the remaining investments, never exceeding September 3, 2029. An advance of up to 50.00% of the granted aid may be requested, with a guarantee of 125.00% of the advanced amount.

Selection is carried out through competitive bidding and the processing is the responsibility of the Aid Management Area of FOGAIBA; the resolution is issued by the vice president for agricultural matters. The Evaluation Commission is chaired by the secretary general of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Natural Environment and vice-chaired by the director general of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development. An administrative appeal may be filed against the resolution before the counselor of Agriculture, Fisheries and Natural Environment within a period of one month. The effectiveness of the call is subject to the approval of the selection criteria by the Regional Monitoring Committee of the Balearic Islands.

With this call, the agricultural sector of the Islands has a two-month window to plan investments in machinery, real estate, digitalization and water efficiency with European co-financing, and with a retroactive eligibility period that allows for the recognition of expenses already executed since April 2025.

Fuente: Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands (BOIB), no. 122, of September 29, 2026, Section III, p. 52634 (official reference: 9506).