B.C. traceability funding programs

Funding is available to agriculture, food and seafood businesses to support the adoption of new or improved traceability systems, practices, technologies and infrastructure in B.C. The programs aim to enable businesses to meet existing and emerging market and regulatory requirements for traceability systems.

Programs are jointly funded by Canada and the Province of British Columbia as part of the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership – a federal, provincial, and territorial initiative.  

Please refer to the success stories at the bottom of the page to determine which program best fits your business.

Traceability Adoption Program

The Traceability Adoption (TAP) program offers up to $20,000 in cost-shared funding to individual food, seafood and agriculture businesses to implement facility-based traceability practices systems, infrastructure and technologies. Funding is also available for training and consulting services.

Funding is also available to ranchers and abattoirs for up to $3,500 for the purchase of livestock tag readers (handheld or panel readers), reader installation, related software and related training. Tag readers supported under the program must be on the CCIA’s list of approved RFID readers (PDF).

The Traceability Adoption program will be open for applications starting May 9th, 2024, at 9 AM! Please visit Investment Agriculture Foundation for more information or to submit an application.

Traceability Value Chain Program

The Traceability Value Chain (TVC) program provides cost-shared funding up to $75,000 towards the adoption of information sharing systems that will enhance agrifood and seafood traceability among supply chain partners. 

The TVC program is intended for agriculture, food and seafood sector organizations, commercial food hubs and value chain partners.

The Traceability Value Chain program is expected to open for applications in 2024. Applications will be accepted by Investment Agriculture Foundation. Please check back later for more updates.

Traceability Knowledge Transfer Program

The Traceability Knowledge Transfer program provides funding support to agriculture, food and seafood industry organizations for the purposes of educating their membership about traceability systems, practices, infrastructure and technologies.

For more information, visit the Traceability Knowledge Transfer program website.

Success stories

The following success stories were developed under the Canadian Agricultural Partnership from 2018 to 2023.