EU Funding

Farm management software financed through AFIR projects

Crop records, treatments, stocks and machinery in a single application — an investment that AFIR lines can accommodate inside farmers' projects.

Northdan Soft is a software supplier, not a funding consultancy, and is not affiliated with any managing authority or development agency. Programme information is indicative — always check the conditions in the programme's official applicant guide.

Farm management software earns its place in an AFIR dossier through what it records, not through what it costs: plots or livestock, field operations and treatments with their dates, input stocks and cost per crop — records most farmers still keep across notebooks and separate spreadsheets. Digitalisation has no intervention of its own in the 2023-2027 Strategic Plan; the software component enters as part of the investment project, and the legal anchor is the declared objective of the interventions themselves, which includes increasing the focus on research, technology and digitalisation, with reference to Articles 73 and 74 of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115. Checked on 30 July 2026 on the agency portal: codes DR-12, DR-14 and DR-18, which circulate in presentation materials and appeared in earlier versions of this page too, are not in the published intervention catalogue, and DR 30 is the support for young farmer setup, a lump sum of 70,000 EUR, not a processing intervention. Northdan Soft builds the application and its technical documents; the guide, the dossier and any eligibility verdict stay with the agricultural consultant and the agency.

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An application designed for the field, not the office

It works on a phone, with data entered straight from the plot, including in areas with weak signal — otherwise it simply goes unused.

The records required by the payments agency and by AFIR, together

The treatment register, the log of field operations and the stock situation are generated from current data, ready to present at inspections.

A digital component that supports the score

We describe farm digitalization in the terms of the selection grid, with concrete deliverables the evaluator can match against the criteria.

The published interventions where a software component fits

On its agriculture funding sections the agency lists, for holdings and processing, interventions DR 15 for orchards, DR 16 for vegetables and potatoes, DR 19 for non-productive farm investments, DR 20 for the livestock sector, DR 22 and DR 23 for conditioning, storage and processing, DR 25 and DR 26 for irrigation, DR 30 for young farmer setup, DR 33 for producer groups and sub-measure 4.1 for simple machinery purchases.

A few figures taken from the intervention pages: DR 20 offers public support of at most 2 million EUR per project, or 300,000 EUR where the project proposes only machinery and equipment, at an intensity of no more than 65% of eligible costs. DR 16 reaches 3 million EUR per project for producer associations in the vegetable sector and 2,000,000 EUR otherwise, also at 65%. DR 30 grants 70,000 EUR as a lump sum in two instalments, 75% on signature and 25% subject to correct implementation of the business plan.

Why DR-12, DR-14 and DR-18 are no longer planning references

None of the three codes appears in the catalogue published by the agency at the date of our check, and the details-and-annexes address for DR-18 returns an error, unlike those of the active interventions. This does not mean an intervention was cancelled or cannot reappear in a later version of the Strategic Plan — a missing page is not a decision. It does mean that a code with no published guide, no annexes and no session cannot carry an investment plan.

The rule we apply, and recommend: read the code from the intervention page, with its full title next to it, rather than from a programme list recompiled from one year to the next.

Frequently asked questions

Which AFIR intervention should a farm management software sit in?

The one that matches the main investment, because digitalisation has no code of its own in the 2023-2027 Strategic Plan. A young farmer setting up looks at DR 30, a livestock farm at DR 20, a vegetable holding at DR 16, a processing unit at DR 22 or DR 23. The intervention guide confirms the classification, not a programme list.

What must farm management software do to be worth the investment?

At a minimum: records of plots and crops, a log of field operations and treatments, input stocks and cost per crop. On top of that core you can add maps, sensors or subsidy reports — depending on the size and specialisation of the farm.

A farmer with no experience of computers — can they use something like this?

Yes, provided the application is built for that user: simple screens on a phone, few mandatory fields, training at handover. We include the training sessions in the project precisely so the software is genuinely used and not merely accepted.