Saskatchewan Product Development Program (PDP)

• The applicant must be a for-profit agriculture value-added processor.
• The business operations and tax payments must be based in the Province of Saskatchewan.
• The project must involve developing or upgrading value-added products or processes using primary agricultural commodities grown or raised in Canada.
• The proposed product must demonstrate substantial use of Canadian-grown agricultural products.
• Eligible activities must relate to product or process development carried out by third-party facilities or contracted service providers (e.g., technical services, test processing, specification development).

Who is eligible?

• Agriculture value-added processing companies
• Food processing companies using Canadian-grown agricultural products
• For-profit processors upgrading raw primary agricultural products into new products
• For-profit processors further upgrading processed agricultural products, co-products, or by-products into new products
• For-profit processing businesses operating and paying taxes in Saskatchewan

Who is not eligible

• Non–for-profit organizations, including cooperatives and associations that are not structured as for-profit entities.
• Companies whose main activities are not agriculture value-added processing (i.e., they do not upgrade raw or processed agricultural products into new value-added products).
• Businesses that do not use inputs originating from primary agricultural commodities grown or raised in Canada.
• Companies whose operations and tax payments are not based in the Province of Saskatchewan.
• Projects that are already receiving funding from other Government of Saskatchewan sources or from the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Agri-Marketing program.

Eligible expenses

• Technical service fees provided by third-party specialists or laboratories.
• Product development and demonstration costs carried out by external service providers.
• Test processing expenses incurred at third-party processing facilities.
• Assessment and development costs for process and manufacturing technologies performed by contracted providers.
• Specification development costs managed by external consultants or service organizations.

Eligible geographic areas

• Companies whose operations and tax payments are based within the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada.

• The Product Development Program is funded in part by the Governments of Canada and Saskatchewan under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership.
• The program is administered by the Food Centre.
• Applications are reviewed on a first come, first served basis.
• A completed application does not guarantee funding.