Primary Sector Growth Fund (PSGF)

The Primary Sector Growth Fund is MPI's flagship co-investment fund for New Zealand's food and fibre sector, and it replaced Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures on 23 May 2025. It sits under the Ministry for Primary Industries and backs primary-sector businesses, industry bodies, and other groups working across the value chain. The fund uses a rolling expression-of-interest process with no fixed deadline. It supports development and launch of high-value products, ingredients, and materials; by-product conversion; productivity and cost-reduction work; and, from April 2026, feasibility studies for water storage and reticulation. MPI does not publish award sizes on the assessed pages. Applicants do best when the project reaches beyond normal operations and shows clear sector benefit rather than routine business work. The workflow runs from EOI to application, contract, delivery, and final report, so a strong case needs commercial value, a primary-sector fit, and a clear path to co-invested delivery. Producers, processors, and sector bodies that can show practical gains across the value chain are the clearest fit.

Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.