Alberta's Canadian Agricultural Partnership initiatives are evolving and changing as recently announced. These modifications will be in effect until March 31, 2023, when the Canadian Agricultural Partnership comes to an end.
Changes include a simplified grant application procedure that will help allow applicants to receive funds faster, enable companies to create jobs more easily and inject more money into the province’s economy. Funding for the five-year $406-million partnership remains unchanged. The program will stimulate innovation and technical progress on farms and across the food supply chain because of these changes.
Provincial transformation is taking place to assist economic recovery and growth, and to reduce red tape. The agri-food sector has a lot of room for investment and development, and it can help Alberta recover economically. The changes will reinforce Alberta's focus on investment and development in agriculture, agri-food, and agri-processing; stimulate innovation and technical advances on farms and in value-added facilities; and keep the promise to increase public trust in agriculture.
The Canadian Agricultural Partnership, which began in April 2018, is a five-year, $3 billion federal-provincial-territorial investment in agriculture, agri-food, and agri-based products. The Canadian Agricultural Partnership is a $406 million federal-provincial investment in critical and strategic agricultural programs, projects, and initiatives in Alberta.
Other agriculture and agri-business programming can be found at: https://agpal.ca/#/home, which is a web-based discovery tool developed by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) to assist farmers and others in the agriculture and agri-business sector in finding federal, provincial, and territorial agricultural information that is relevant to them.