The planned 2025 budget for the Ministry of Environment Protection and Agriculture (MEPA) amounts to 808.1 million GEL (an increase of 120.1 million GEL from the amount designated in 2024). The assigned budget was predominantly distributed across the following areas:

• The environmental protection and agricultural development program – 25.9 mln. GEL;
• Food safety, plant protection, and epizootic safety – 72.34 mln. GEL;
• Development of viticulture and winemaking – 81.18 mln. GEL;
• Unified agricultural projects – 350.87 mln. GEL.
• Modernization of the amelioration system – 129.1 mln. GEL;
• Environmental supervision – 30.0 mln. GEL;
• Establishment and management of protected areas – 27.74 mln. GEL;
• Prediction, evaluation, prevention, and monitoring within environmental protection – 33.6 mln. GEL.

Traditionally, the largest share of MEPA funding has been directed towards the Rural Development Agency (RDA), Georgian amelioration (GA), and the National Wine Agency (NWA), with respective shares of 43%, 16%, and 10%. 

The budget for the unified agricultural project, implemented by the RDA, is distributed among different agricultural development projects, namely: agricultural project management – 14.7 mln. GEL; preferential agro-credits – 210.0 mln. GEL; agricultural insurance – 15.0 mln. GEL; the “Plant the Future” project – 26.0 mln. GEL; co-financing projects for processing and storage enterprises – 13.0 mln. GEL; promoting development in the agro sector – 18.1 mln. GEL; co-financing agricultural mechanization – 10.0 mln. GEL; and promoting hazelnut production – 23.0 mln. GEL. 

Compared to the planned version of the 2024 budget, financing for the development of viticulture and winemaking increased by 27.4 million GEL within the Ministry’s allocation.