Strengthening the Canadian Supply Chain Program
Funds Canadian food manufacturers and processors through Protein Industries Canada co-investment to reformulate or scale up products using domestic plant-protein ingredients.
The Strengthening the Canadian Supply Chain Program is a co-investment grant administered by Protein Industries Canada (PIC), a federally backed innovation supercluster, under its Capacity Building stream. The program reimburses up to 75 percent of total eligible project costs, capped at CAD 150,000 per project. Eligible project budgets must fall between CAD 50,000 and CAD 200,000, meaning the min…
Reformulating products with domestically produced Canadian plant-protein ingredients; scaling up supply of domestically produced food products to Canadian consumers; scaling up domestically produced ingredients to Canadian manufacturers. Eligible crops include wheat, oats, barley, peas, soy, fava beans, lupin, and hemp.
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