The Honourable Elvis Loveless, Minister of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture, will participate in the official launch of Newfoundland and Labrador’s cost-shared programming under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP) on Monday, July 24.
Minister Loveless will be joined by the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food; the Honourable Gudie Hutchings, Minister of Rural Economic Development; and Wayne Simmons, president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Agriculture.
The event will begin at Hammond Farms, 1 Hammond Farms Road, Little Rapids at 10:00 a.m.
Sustainable CAP is a five-year, $3.5 billion initiative that aims to strengthen the competitiveness, innovation, and resiliency of Canada’s agriculture, agri‐food and agri‐based products sector. Sustainable CAP builds on the success of the previous $3 billion, five-year Canadian Agricultural Partnership, which provided $37 million to more than 700 agricultural initiatives in the province from 2018 to 2023. Through the Canadian Agricultural Partnership and other initiatives, Newfoundland and Labrador’s agriculture sector has exceeded the Provincial Government’s goal of doubling food self-sufficiency in fruit and vegetable production from 10 per cent to 20 per cent, reaching more than 21 per cent by the end of 2022.
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