Funding to address agribusiness market and regulatory requirements

Get up to $50,000 to implement third-party assurance certification projects that will help your company address international market requirements.

AgriAssurance Program: Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) component aims to support for-profit SMEs to help implement assurance projects that address market and regulatory requirements.

It will accomplish these goals by providing targeted support to companies to help implement third-party assurance certification projects that address international market requirements, thus helping expand export opportunities for Canadian agricultural and agri-food products.

Eligible applicants under the AgriAssurance Program: Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Component are for-profit organizations operating in the agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector, including fish and seafood, which may include:

• businesses and corporations
• co-operatives
• Indigenous groups

Small and medium-sized enterprises must:

• be directly involved in growing harvesting, processing or otherwise transforming or consolidating their products
• have up to 250 employees
• have annual revenues below $50 million
• be independently incorporated
• have completed market research
• be export and market ready

All eligible applicants must be legal entities capable of entering into legally binding agreements.

Eligible applicants must also meet the principles and criteria outlined in the Applicant Guide, such as:

• providing a minimum of 50% of the funding towards eligible costs
• total Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada funding requested for a project must be no more than $50,000. If you have multiple funding projects within the program, the total contribution towards all projects cannot exceed $100,000

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