Eight Nova Scotia agri-food companies are to share in the latest round of support from the province’s Strategic Infrastructure Investment Fund.
So far, $4.25 million has been committed from the $6 million, four-year fund. The eight businesses receiving support in the program’s third year include:
- Foxhill Cheese House at Port Williams, to expand its processing capacity to “respond to opportunities” to make new specialty dairy products;
- 2M Farms Ltd., of Berwick, to expand its seed potato operation to allow potato growers in the province to enter new specialty export markets’
- Nova Agri. Inc. at Centreville, to support the commercialization of greenhouse technology that may allow Nova Scotia producers to better meet consumer demand for fresh horticulture products;
- Holmestead Cheese Sales Inc. of Aylesford, to expand to meet demand for existing cheese products and to develop new product lines;
- MacMaster Choice Meats at Antigonish, to develop production and processing systems;
- Eyking Brothers of Millville, to develop a facility that will “position them to respond to new opportunities in the growing market for value-added vegetable products;”
- Cogmagun Poultry Processing Co. Ltd. at Centre Burlington, to provide “enhanced” value-added processing opportunities for Nova Scotia’s specialty poultry industry; and
- Northumberlamb Co-operative Ltd./Brookside Abattoir of Truro, to build Nova Scotia producers’ ability to supply high-quality, provincially-inspected lamb and other meat products to existing and new markets.
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“We are working with producers and processors to assist them as they develop their economic potential and improve competitiveness,” Agriculture Minister John MacDonell said in a release last week.
“These businesses were chosen for their strong business plans and benefits for the agri-food industry as a whole.”
