Grants for fruit and berry plantations

You can receive a grant to cover costs related to fruit and berry production.
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Service type
Grants
Target audience
Farmers and owners of agricultural properties
Application deadline
Ongoing
How much
See 'About the grant amount' below
Application type
Traditional agriculture

Farmers planning to invest in fruit and berry plantations.

Priorities may vary between counties. Read the regional guidelines for your region.

  • Preparing and planting plots for fruit and berries, including costs for site preparation and groundwork, wildlife fencing, irrigation systems, crop covers and polytunnels.
  • Costs for plants, planting, trellising systems, etc.
  • Costs for plants with a short productive life, such as annual strawberry plants and long-cane raspberry plants, are not eligible costs.

All applications concerning fruit production for consumption, except market gardens and small-scale production, must include a production plan approved by a producer organisation (Gartnerhallen, Norgrønt or Produsentforeningen 1909).

We can provide grants for:

  • Up to 35 per cent of approved costs for new planting for conventional production.
  • Up to 50 per cent of approved costs for new planting for organic production.

1. Complete and submit your application

You can find the agricultural application form by logging in to 'My page' with BankID. We will ask you to provide the information and documentation we need to assess your project. In the application, you can use the 'Talk to an adviser' button to ask for guidance before submitting it. As a general rule, you must not start the project before submitting your application. However, due to long delivery times for fruit trees and similar items, you may order these at your own risk.

2. Assessment

We process applications on an ongoing basis, and several people assess each application. Our guidelines and regional priorities determine which projects we can fund. We receive many applications and have limited funds, so we cannot approve every application.

3. Decision

Your customer adviser will present your case to the decision-maker. Once we have made a decision on your application, we will notify you by email, and you can find the decision on My page. If we offer you funding, make sure you understand the terms and how we will disburse the funds.


Agricultural funding exhausted in several regions

We are receiving many agricultural funding applications, and most of our regional offices have unfortunately run out of funds for 2026. This currently applies to Agder, Finnmark, Innlandet, Møre og Romsdal, Nordland, Rogaland, Troms, Trøndelag, Vestfold and Østfold.

If your application is affected, you will not receive a decision until 2027, provided your project is eligible.

You must not start the project before submitting your application.

Key requirements for funding

To receive services from us, your business must uphold the principles of responsible business conduct and understand its own sustainability risks. Read more about sustainability and responsible business conduct.

State aid rules

Our funding must comply with State aid rules. Five general conditions for State aid must be met.

The General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER) forms part of the State aid rules. It contains a set of articles that provide the legal basis for us to support businesses in different circumstances. One or more articles may apply in each case. Read more about GBER.

Legal basis for the scheme

Our funding schemes have been notified to the EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA). The legal basis for these notifications is available on the National Legal Basis page.

Other public funding

You must state in your application whether you have applied or plan to apply for other public funding for the project. We also base the amount of funding we award on an overall assessment of how much public funding is needed for the project to go ahead.

When determining the grant amount, we therefore assume that you will receive no public funding, including SkatteFUNN, other than that stated in your application. This applies to funding for the project costs on which we have based our grant calculation (eligible costs). If you receive other public funding, including SkatteFUNN, for the same costs after we have made our offer, we may reduce our grant accordingly or withdraw it.

This does not prevent your business from receiving other public support for project costs other than those used to calculate our grant.

Apply here
You can find the application form by logging in to My page with BankID.
Frequently asked questions and answers about agriculture