Support for B.C. companies

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These 12 projects received $1,024,319 in support from the Canadian Agricultural Partnership under the Canada-BC Agri-Innovation Program, bringing the total amount of funding to nearly $2.6 million since the program began in April 2018.

Brightside Poultry: $25,000 to purchase a specifically designed vending machine to sell eggs at their farmgate.

Certified Organic Association of BC: $118,000 to engage organic producers to adopt a new online certification tool to streamline the certification process and encourage more producers to follow up with organic certification.

Consolidated Fruit Packers: $188,810 to purchase and implement a blueberry grading machine that can consistently grade size, color classification and quality with high accuracy.

Consolidated Fruit Packers: $131,450 to develop a perfect eating stage preconditioned pear.

Farming Karma Fruit Company: $55,000 to develop an industrial scale machine to remove apple cores with seeds and stems prior to juice pressing.

Howling Bluff Estate Winery: $47,871 to study the capability of a flex cube, an alternative storage container that could replace traditional oak barrels to reduce the cost of producing wine. 

Joppa Wills Inc.: $40,688 to develop a commercial scale fruit dehydrator to divert 100,000 pounds of raw grade food waste back into the food supply.

Kwantlen Polytechnic University: $10,000 to develop and confirm scientific protocols for effectively assessing the microbial health of soil.

Mirochembiotech Ltd.: $70,000 to pilot test amino acid chelated minerals to make them more readily available in Canada. 

University of British Columbia: $90,000 to research and demonstrate a suitable methodology for the detection of norovirus in fresh produce in B.C.

University of British Columbia: $54,000 to develop a sustainable and cost-effective approach to manage dairy manure and recover value-added nutrients.

Van Eekelen Enterprises Ltd.: $136,500 to develop and test a system for growing Witloof (leafy vegetable) to improve cleanliness, reduce repetitive labour and increase efficiency.

Vintality: $57,000 to develop a GPS fertilization trailer to precisely apply fertilizer according to the plant’s needs.

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