Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) announced that it will award $50-million to the Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligence Network (CAAIN).
It enables CAAIN to launch new programming, beginning this fall.
CAAIN will continue to focus on its primary mandate of funding the development and adoption of innovation that increases the productivity, profitability, and/or sustainability of our nation’s agricultural
producers, it said.
Over the past six years, we have committed more than $42M of ISED dollars to 56 projects whose total value exceeds $133M.million said board chair Laura Kilcrease.
Thirty projects have completed their CAAIN funding cycle, a number have successfully gone to market, validating ISED’s and our faith in their
long-term value and effectively providing taxpayers a strong return on investment, a news release said.
“To say we appreciate ISED’s belief in us and what we do would be an understatement. As someone who
