Material investments to master new technologies and improve productivity

50% of the approved investment cost with a limit of 500 thousand TND. This percentage can reach 55% for category “A” investments in agriculture, fishing and aquaculture and 60% for combined agricultural service companies and development groups in the agricultural sector and some fishing. This grants is only granted at the effective start of the activity.

List of material investments

• • Material investments to master new technologies:

-Design equipment: computer-aided design and computer-aided drawing (CAD / CAM)
-Computer-assisted production management and computer-assisted maintenance and
management (GPAO / CMMS);
-Laboratory equipment excluding tools, small equipment such as laboratory glassware,
consumables and production equipment.

• • Material investments to improve productivity:

-Acquisition of agricultural tractors and related machines: harvesters and olive
harvesting machines;
-Acquisition of machinery and equipment necessary for saving irrigation water, improving
its quality and controlling irrigation and fertilization techniques;
-Carrying out water and soil conservation works;
-Seed production and multiplication;
-Preparation of meadows, pastures and sown rangelands and planting fodder and forest
shrubs;
-Equipment, instruments and specific means necessary for production based on the organic
production method;
-Protective nets set-up;
-Setting up electricity production stations using renewable energies in agriculture,
fishing and aquaculture;
-The equipment, instruments and specific means necessary for the production of compost
and the valorisation of plant, animal and organic by-products;
-Renewal of old olive and fruit tree plantations;
-Enhancing agricultural land, improvement of soil fertility, development of oases and
construction of rainwater harvesting stations;
-Equipment and materials specific to multi-chapel greenhouses and Canary Islands
greenhouses;
-Acquisition of field precision equipment and materials for the rationalization of
agricultural inputs and quality control;
-Equipment and materials for temperature and humidity control in production areas;
-Specific equipment and instruments for the production of forest and pastoral
plants;
-Milking equipment and cold equipment on the farm;
-Cold and freezing equipment on board.
-Machines for making flake ice on board;
-Prospecting fishing equipment;
-Satellite vessel monitoring systems;
-Isothermal rooms and containers for the preservation of the product on board;
-Selective fishing engine;
-Automatic feed dispenser specific to aquaculture projects;
-Automatic oxygen dispenser for aquaculture ponds;
-New olive tree plantations.

Intangible investments

50% of the cost of intangible investments approved with a limit of 500 thousand TND including the study grants, with a limit of 20 thousand TND. This grants is only granted once the activity has actually started.

• • Product laboratory tests to confirm its compliance with the required standards and
    get a specific quality label.
  • Design and registration of trademarks for agricultural products;
  • Setting up a system of controlled designation of origin and indication of source and
    other proofs of quality for agricultural products;
  • Setting up a tracking system for agricultural products;
  • Study costs;
  • Support and supervision costs;
  • Patents exploitation;
  • Marketing assistance;
  • Technical assistance in:

-CAM computer- assited manufacturing;
– Computer-assisted maintenance management CMMS;
– Computer-assisted production management CAPM;
– Quality;
– Computer assited design CAD;
– Cutting.

• • Implementation of integrated software;
  • Methods office;
  • HACCP certification (analysis of hazards and critical points for their control);
  • ISO certification;
  • Products Certification to meet Tunisian and foreign standards;
  • European Commission CE labelling;
  • Accreditation laboratories;
  • Equipment calibration;
  • Software acquisition of:

– CAM computer- assisted manufacturing;
– Management of computer-assisted maintenance CMMS;
– Computer-assisted production management CAPM;
– Quality;
– Computer aided design CAD;
– Computer assisted drawing CAD;
– Cutting;
– Integrated.

• Accreditation assistance
• Set-up of a HACCP system (analysis of hazards and critical points for their
  control);
• Set-up of an SMS security management system;
• Set-up of an EMS environment management system;
• Set-up of a QMS quality management system;
• Websites;
• Project management operations;
• Remote monitoring and control systems;
• On duty health care (Veille sanitaire)

R&D expenditure

A 50% grants for approved research and development expenses up to 300 thousand TND.

List of R&D expenses

• Preliminary studies to develop new products or new production models;
• Carrying out models and related technical experiments, as well as field tests;
• Acquisition of scientific equipment to carry out development research projects;
• Granting patents.

Expenses on employee training leading to skills certification

70% of the cost of training Tunisian employees leading to skills certification in accordance with international standards with an annual limit of 20 thousand TND for each company.