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Growing Forward Services and Programs in BC

Growing Forward is a commitment to Canada’s agriculture sector focused on achieving results and delivering programs that are simple, effective and tailored to local needs.

Growing Forward puts emphasis on building a profitable sector through its three strategic outcomes:

• A competitive and innovative sector: From idea to invention to consumer, growing new opportunities that support innovation and competitiveness.
• A sector that contributes to society's priorities: Enabling the sector to contribute to the priorities of increasingly health-conscious and environmentally aware Canadians.
• A sector proactive in managing risks: The business risk management (BRM) suite programs were the first programs available under Growing Forward, offering more responsive, predictable and bankable programs for farmers.

In BC, the focus of the Growing Forward programs will be on building a profitable sector, the following is a factsheet in two versions: GF Factsheet - March 31, 2010 (PDF - 309 KB) or GF Factsheet - May 25, 2010 (HTML).

The Growing Forward program in Canada

For more information about Growing Forward please visit: http://www.agr.gc.ca/growingforward
For information on funding opportunities please visit: http://www.ats-sea.agr.gc.ca/exp/5288-eng.htm

The Growing Forward program in BC

The Growing Forward program (March 31, 2010)(print version) in British Columbia provides a wide range of programs and services for producers and processors.

The Growing Forward a BC-Canada agreement

The governments of Canada and British Columbia are committed to ensuring that foods produced in Canada are among the highest quality in the world. To further this cause, funding will be made available to the people of British Columbia under Growing Forward (GF), the new agriculture policy partnership between the federal and the provincial government, which runs from 2009-2013.