Sustainable Cap Program supports 17 farm projects in NL during the first year

    Thursday, 18 July 2024 21:44

    By Tonya Organ

    Federal and Provincial Governments are investing in projects that will help farmers adopt beneficial land-use management practices to increase environmental resiliency on farms.

    To date, for 2024-25, 30 projects with a value of $868,039 have been approved to implement Beneficial Management Practices on 487 acres of land. Funding from the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership’s (Sustainable CAP) Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program helped support 17 initiatives in Newfoundland and Labrador in the program’s first year (2023-24), with an investment of more than $708,000. Federal and Provincial Governments are investing in projects that will help farmers adopt beneficial land-use management practices to increase environmental resiliency on farms. The current intake period saw increased interest, with 40 applications submitted during this period – almost double the number of applications received last year. Review of applications for the current period is ongoing. Applications will open again in spring 2025.

     

     

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