The Perennial Crop Renewal Program supports producers to remove unproductive, diseased, or unmarketable cultivars and to adopt growing systems that are better suited to environmental conditions and market demands.
The Perennial Crop Renewal Program (PCRP) is an up to $15M program funded by the Government of BC through the Ministry of Agriculture and Food (AF) and delivered by the Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC (IAF).
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Background
The Perennial Crop Renewal Program (PCRP) is a multi-commodity program that provides cost-shared funding that will be available to BC-based perennial crop producers to remove unproductive, diseased, or unmarketable cultivars; and to adopt growing systems that are better suited to environmental conditions and market demands, based on sector-specific opportunities. Funding will also be available to perennial crop associations and stakeholder groups to conduct sector development projects that evaluate or define agronomic and market opportunities.
Program Objective
- To support farmers to adapt to environmental and market conditions by diversifying, renovating, or expanding production.
- To support agricultural sectors to evaluate and define agronomic and market opportunities.
Program Goal
To increase the competitiveness and resiliency of the BC agri-food economy in domestic and global markets.
Program Funding Streams
Evaluation Criteria
All applications will be evaluated based on a set of pre-determined criteria. The following are examples of evaluation criteria and considerations that will be used to score each application:
Stream 1: Sector Development Projects Evaluation Criteria
- Scope of Opportunity Assessment
- Quality of Contractor
- Quality of workplan
- Knowledge Transfer
- Quality of proposal (strength and quality of application)
Stream 2: Removal Projects Evaluation Criteria
- Rationale for crop removal
- Crop destruction method (best practices and in compliance)
- Proper disposal of supporting infrastructure
- Long term land use or ownership plan will ensure land is kept in agricultural production
- Quality of removal proposal (strength and quality of application)
Stream 3: Sector-Specific Planting Projects Evaluation Criteria
- Applicant experience growing crop on a commercial scale
- Applicant experience growing this crop for target market
- Applicant experience growing perennial crops on a commercial scale
- Likelihood of horticultural success of the proposed planting
- Variety has traits suitable for intended market
- Likelihood of market success
- Quality of planting plan (strength and quality of application)
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We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Province of British Columbia through the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.