SRD01 olive-sector grant · Calabria Region
Calabria's SRD01 "olive sector" call funds new olive plantings, grub-up and replanting and irrigation systems at 65%, with a €50 million budget. SoilSense soil-moisture monitoring is not a standard-cost line item, but it strengthens the environmental score (P07 — systems that reduce water consumption) and helps hit the water savings the call requires (CR23). Have your technician or CAA confirm how it fits.
1 · New olive grove ≥ 2 ha + irrigation — your part
This is the funded core of the call: new intensive, high-density or super-intensive olive plantings (or grub-up and replanting of at least 2 hectares), reimbursed at standard cost (UCS). It also covers drip irrigation (a UCS add-on of €730–1,180/ha), new irrigation systems, water recovery and capture-and-collection systems. Access requirement: a new olive planting of at least 2 hectares.
2 · Soil-moisture monitoring — SoilSense
SoilSense measures soil moisture in the root zone and turns it into clear irrigation alerts. In this call it is not a standard-cost line: your technician frames it among the eligible irrigation and water-efficiency investments (§7) because it is a "system that reduces water consumption" — exactly the category that scores under the P07 environmental criterion and documents the water savings the CR23 condition requires. It is also the digital / DSS innovation that criterion P01 promotes.
The call rewards olive projects that save water: criterion P07 awards points for buying systems that reduce water consumption (for at least 20% of eligible spend), and CR23 requires a demonstrated 5–25% water saving. SoilSense soil-moisture monitoring supports both and represents the digital / DSS innovation of criterion P01. Pair it with your new olive planting and drip irrigation; framing the line item is your technician's job.
How SoilSense works
A wireless datalogger reads soil moisture right at the root zone and sends it straight to the SoilSense app — so you can see exactly how much water your crop has, and act before stress sets in.
The setup
The SoilSense app
The same data, live on your computer, tablet and phone. Always available from everywhere you are.
No agronomist needed
When something needs your attention, SoilSense sends a plain-language alert to your phone — so you know whether to water, wait, or ease off, at a glance.
One of your sensors has dropped below the soil moisture safe range.
Stressed
Too dry — water now
Getting dry
Plan to irrigate soon
Just right
Ideal soil moisture
Too wet
Ease off the water
In Calabria and across Italy's olive groves
You wouldn't be the first grower in Calabria to irrigate on real soil data, nor the first olive grower in Italy to do it. SoilSense is already in the field on both counts.
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What we monitor across Italy
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Base rate 65% on eligible spend (75% for small farms). Minimum eligible spend €20,000 for an individual entrepreneur (€200,000 when associated); per-operation ceiling €300,000 (€3,000,000 when associated). Call budget €50M. Access requirement: a new olive planting of at least 2 hectares. Confirm with your technician and with Calabria Region.
We hand the technician or CAA drafting the business plan an annex documenting how SoilSense soil-moisture monitoring supports the required water savings (CR23) and strengthens the project's P07 environmental score. The line item is evaluated by the technician among the irrigation and water-efficiency investments:
| Component | Role in the Calabria SRD01 olive-sector call | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| SoilSense soil-moisture probe (volumetric water content) | System that reduces water consumption — P07 scoring · supports the §7 irrigation investments | Available today · confirm with the technician |
| SoilSense app & software — data, alerts and decision support | Digital / DSS innovation (theme of criterion P01) · documents the CR23 water savings | Available today |
| New olive grove ≥ 2 ha + drip irrigation system | Access requirement and standard-cost (UCS) items — §7 | Supplied by the applicant |
The applicant, with their technician or CAA, submits the business plan and application on the regional platform; we supply the water-efficiency annex. We never submit on your behalf, and SoilSense is not a guaranteed standard-cost item.
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Your technician or CAA drafts the business plan and submits the application on the regional platform. We supply the water-efficiency annex documenting how soil-moisture monitoring supports the P07 score and the CR23 water savings.
Indicative information; not legal or financial advice. Rates, ceilings and requirements follow Calabria Region's SRD01 "olive-sector productive investments" public call (CSR 2023-2027, DDS no. 10667 of 16.06.2026) and must be confirmed with the Region and with your own technician or CAA before applying. SoilSense is not a standard-cost item in the call: soil-moisture monitoring should be evaluated by the technician among the irrigation / water-efficiency investments (§7) and for the P07 environmental score. Applications closed at 17:00 on 31 July 2026.
