Agri-Industry Development & Advancement. Business Development (NB

To support the New Brunswick agricultural industry in efforts to sustain, develop and/or expand markets, both domestic and international, by providing financial assistance for the tools, strategic infrastructure, innovative technologies, and resources needed to improve the agricultural industry’s competitiveness, profitability, and sustainability.

• Activities that assist eligible applicants undertake, develop, and implement formal plans or analysis for their operation, which may include financial, business, marketing, human resource management, diversification, value added or succession plans; assistance to individual applicants for strategic agriculture related training, technical skills development, marketing, human resource management and business development initiatives that support the strengthening of management and marketing practices and skills that enhance the viability and profitability of individual enterprises;
• Support for the development of cost of production analysis and benchmarking activities that enhance the viability and profitability of the industry and their individual producer operations.
• Assistance to groups of agriculture producers and agricultural producer associations to assist them with the development of strategic directions for their organization and to acquire the skills and training needed to operate a successful organization. Groups and associations are also eligible for assistance to champion training activities for their membership that support the strengthening of management and technical practices that enhance the viability and profitability of a sector and / or the New Brunswick agricultural industry as a whole; assistance to producers or new entrant farmers to encourage one-on-one mentoring activities that support the strengthening of management and technical practices and skills that will enhance the viability and profitability of individual enterprises.

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