The New Entrant Farm Business Accelerator (NEFBA) Program supports the growth of new entrants by providing financial support for the development and implementation of farm business plans and growth strategies. For the purposes of this program, New Entrant is defined as an agricultural producer who has not reported farm income for more than 5 years. The Program supports business planning and cost-shared purchasing of commercial farm infrastructure and equipment  needed to accelerate the revenue growth of farm businesses.

Through the NEFBA Program, a new farm business can receive support to develop a growth strategy and to make investments necessary to achieve farm income growth goals, ensure commercial viability and strengthen financial sustainability.

Program Goal: To support food systems partnerships in BC to advance practices, processes, infrastructure, and collaborations that will strengthen and streamline food system logistics, storage, and transportation and address supply chain bottlenecks.

The BC Manufacturing Jobs Fund (BCMJF) is helping manufacturing companies modernize, innovate, and grow by providing funding for capital projects in all regions in B.C., particularly in communities affected by economic impacts or downturns. 

The program welcomes applications from all manufacturing sectors. There is a particular focus on helping the forestry sector retrofit and develop new, sustainable value-added business lines that reduce dependency on old growth logging and make innovative use of biomaterials.

The ADOPT program provides funding to help producer groups and First Nations communities demonstrate and evaluate new agricultural practices and technologies at the local level. The results of successful trials can then be adopted by agricultural operations in the region.

All Saskatchewan producers are eligible for up to one hundred per cent compensation on damage to crops caused by wildlife.

The Product Development Program (PDP) aims to foster growth and innovation in the agriculture/food processing sector by supporting strategic initiatives. Through financial assistance, the program seeks to catalyze the development of novel value-added products and processes that will significantly enhance the value of Canadian agricultural products in Saskatchewan.

he Animal Health and Biosecurity Producer Program provides sheep and goat producers or First Nation Bands raising sheep or goats with a rebate for approved eligible expenses and equipment that improve biosecurity and animal welfare practices. Eligible applicants must meet program criteria below.

The Resilient Agricultural Landscapes Program (RALP) provides funding to producers to increase the environmental resiliency of agricultural land. The program helps producers achieve outcomes related to water quality, soil health and biodiversity through the adoption of beneficial management practices.

The Strategic Field Program (SFP) offers funding for rigorous field level primary production demonstrations, value-added processing technology demonstrations and/or the evaluation of targeted practices and technologies. The goal of SFP is to support targeted field-based projects that enhance and support the delivery of ministry’s extension and knowledge transfer services to producers and targeted projects that demonstrate scalability of research derived processing technologies to value-added processors. Funding is awarded on an annual basis and projects are selected by the Agricultural Development Fund (ADF) Advisory Committee.

The Livestock Facility Emissions Program supports intensive livestock facilities to adopt practices and technologies that will improve environmental performance.

Support the expansion of local markets while simultaneously supporting goals related to community food security, particularly increasing access to affordable local food and improving health and food safety.

Such As:

• Healthy food education and food literacy training (e.g., for foodservice/procurement staff)

• Development of sustainable, seasonal school/childcare lunch menus using local ingredients

• Creation/piloting of food literacy workshops or course modules

• Community fridges and meals (including events promoting local food)

• Community, school, greenhouse, or indoor gardens (includes seeds and eligible setup/maintenance costs)

• Materials, supplies, and small equipment

• Training delivery (room rental, supplies, printing/photocopying)

• Professional fees (project-specific)

• Promotion and marketing initiatives In-province travel

• Facility rentals (excluding organization-owned spaces)

• Other reasonable, project-related expenses approved by the program committee

The Organic Industry Development Program is designed to support the growth, competitiveness, and capacity-building of the organic agriculture sector in Prince Edward Island. By providing strategic assistance, the program aims to foster innovation, sustainability, and economic resilience within the sector. It supports projects that enhance the sector's ability to adapt to emerging challenges, improve productivity, and increase market access. This initiative encourages collaboration among stakeholders, promotes knowledge transfer, and helps position the organic sector for long-term success, ensuring its contribution to both regional and national economic development.

A financing program has been developed to provide working capital financing to assist Prince Edward Island businesses impacted by the new export tariffs implemented by the United States of America (the “Tariffs”), ensuring they can maintain operations, preserve jobs, and invest in alternative supply chain strategies. This new loan program will assist qualifying companies to maintain normal business operations during these unprecedented times.

The Export Enhancement and Diversification Fund helps Prince Edward Island exporters and export-ready businesses with marketing and trade costs to execute export plans and activities to explore new global export opportunities to diversify and enhance their business. 

The Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) in Agriculture Industry Housing Improvement Program is designed to support the improvement of the quality of housing for temporary foreign workers in PEI’s agriculture sector that have been hired through the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program stream.   

The Prince Edward Island Department of Agriculture has established the Agri-Food Growth Program to build and enhance local markets to increase the awareness, sale and consumption of Prince Edward Island produced agri-food products.  

There are five components to the program: 

1. Signage

2. Promotion

3. New Product Market Readiness

4. Season Extension 

5. Sector Growth Initiatives

The Marketing Support Assistance helps Prince Edward Island businesses with their marketing costs from start-up through to international exporting. This assists companies as they undertake marketing research, advertising and promotion, and market investigation.

The Ignition Fund is a competitive-based fund for entrepreneurs seeking startup capital for a new innovative business venture or to develop and launch a new innovative product.  The fund invests seed capital that will allow successful applicants to turn their ideas into a tangible and viable business.  

The Product and Market Development Program is designed to expand domestic and international competitiveness by supporting small and medium-sized agricultural producers, agri-businesses and agri-processors to expand their product base or markets through:

• Value-added and agri-food processing projects; 

• Market development activities on PEI; and

• Market development activities through intra-jurisdictional projects. 

Special consideration will be given to projects which include knowledge adoption, and clean technologies that will upscale innovation. This program will assist the individual needs of small and medium-sized sized enterprises, rather than serve to implement broad strategic initiatives