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PARSADA (Plan stratégique pour anticiper le potentiel retrait européen des substances actives et le développement de techniques alternatives pour la protection des cultures) is a French national plan, launched in spring 2023, that funds development of alternative crop-protection techniques in case the EU withdraws approval for current chemical active substances. This EUR 45 million call for projects, opened 30 June 2025 and administered by FranceAgriMer, is a funding wave under that plan aimed at applied and fundamental research actors developing substitutes to phytopharmaceuticals likely to face EU restriction.
FranceAgriMer's intervention rate is 40-100% of eligible project expenses, with a per-project cap of EUR 7.5 million. Eight sector task forces coordinate the program: field crops, seeds/plants, vineyards, horticulture, fruits/vegetables, aromatic/medicinal plants/hops, overseas crops, and organic farming. Applications are processed on a rolling basis (first review sessions 7 July and 11 August 2025) within the limits of available funds through the 31 December 2026 deadline.
R&D suppliers competing for PARSADA-subsidized demand over foreign chemical-input suppliers, without itself restricting imports at the border.
domestic farm sector from anticipated EU active-substance withdrawals, alongside comparable EU/UK domestic agri-innovation grant programmes already in the register (see food-security-production-subsidies theme).
will be disclosed with enough granularity to track specific beneficiary companies.
versus this EUR 45 million tranche alone.