The Chair of Swine Innovation Porc says funding provided through the Canadian Agricultural Partnership will help address the pork sector's top research priorities.
The Swine Cluster 3 Research Program, a five year 18.5 million dollar research initiative funded by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in partnership with the pork sector through the Canadian Agricultural Partnership, was officially launched in June.
Swine Innovation Porc Chair Stewart Cressman says part of the process involves making decisions on what are the highest research priorities what will make the greatest impact.
Swine Innovation Porc Chair-Stewart Cressman:
We identified our priorities based on consultation with the industry and we called for full proposals on 24 of the projects and then submitted them for external review by researchers to give critical analysis on the scientific validity of the programs.
Then we had our research advisory committee, researchers that weren't involved in the research, trying to get scientific rigor on the projects that we had selected to ensure that they were sound scientifically.
Based on that, then we submitted a request for 22 million dollars worth of funding to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
Source : Farmscape