B.C. traceability funding programs
Last updated on December 29, 2023Funding 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 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 closed for application. Please check back at a later date for more updates.
Please download and review the 2023 – 2024 Program Guide (PDF, 766 KB) for full details.
Program objectives
The objectives of the TVC program are to:
- enhance information sharing and increase the adoption of sustainable, voluntary information sharing systems that will improve supply chain transparency and meet national or international traceability standards across a sector or along a value chain;
- assist participants or entire sectors to streamline operations, improve market access, substantiate product claims or generate economic benefits for participants;
- increase capacity to trace animals, agrifood or seafood products and their associated attributes;
- increase the ability of sectors and value chains to execute emergency response procedures when required (e.g., food recall); and
- support sector and value chain commitments to the sustainable production of safe, high-quality food.
Participant eligibility
Sector organization: A sector organization is a not-for-profit, incorporated association or other entity legally incorporated or formed under the laws of its jurisdiction that represents members in an agriculture, food or seafood sector.
Commercial food hub: Commercial food hubs are commercial shared-use food and beverage processing and innovation facilities that offer food, agriculture and seafood businesses access to commercial processing space, equipment, expertise, and resources to support business development and growth.
Value chain partners: A value chain is a group of three or more agriculture, food or seafood businesses connected along a supply chain that is producing and delivering agriculture or seafood products to consumers (e.g., a business partnership among a producer, processor and distributor).
Please see the full list of participant eligibility criteria in the 2023 – 2024 Program Guide (PDF, 766 KB).
Application forms
Relevant resources
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.
Traceability Adoption Program
The Traceability Adoption (TA) program offers up to $16,000 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.
The Traceability Adoption program is expected to open for application in early 2024. Please check back at a later date for more updates.
Livestock Tag Reader Rebate Program
Provides up to $3,500 in funding to ranchers, abattoirs, or 4-H districts towards 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 Livestock Tag Reader Rebate program is expected to open for application in 2024. Please check back at a later date for more updates.
Success stories
The following success stories were developed under the Canadian Agricultural Partnership from 2018 to 2023.
Livestock Tag Reader Rebate
Traceability Adoption Program
Traceability Value Chain Program
Apply for funding
Traceability regulations
Traceability resources
Contact information
1-888-221-7141