📋What Are the Application Steps & Timeline?

📄What Documents Are Required?

✅Required Documents

• Complete and Sign Application Form – General

• Complete corresponding Appendix for selected sub-program

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📐Format Requirements

PDF only, signed copy required

📥Templates Available

• Appendix A
• Appendix B

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💰What Expenses Are Eligible?

🧾Eligible Expenses

• Individualized agriculture-related skills training

• Registration fees/tuition
• Travel (including accommodation and meals) to attend individualized training events

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🚫Ineligible Expenses

• In-kind contributions (including wages and labour)
• BRM-type activities
• Normal and on-going operating and maintenance activities
• Activities that do not provide a direct benefit to the Sector
• Activities related to aquaponic food production, or to aquaculture, seaweed, fish and seafood production and processing
• Activities which provide tax credits or rebates
• Development and enforcement of regulations
• Multiple members of the same farm operation/organization attending the same individualized training event
• Individualized learning events which do not have a hands-on training component
• Repetitive training
• Training leading to a degree
• Software upgrades
• Participant food costs
• Core organizational activities
• Training activities which are deemed to be part of normal organizational processes
• Capital items
• Other associated expenses will be assessed by the Program’s Review Committee

📏Expense Caps

50% of eligible expenses up to $2,000 per participant per fiscal year for Agri-Skills individualized training expenses

💳Payment Model

reimbursement

⏪Retroactive Expenses Eligible

No

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🤝Is Matching Funding Required?

🔀Matching Required

Yes

📊Matching Ratio

25% minimum

🏦Eligible Matching Sources

• cash
• in-kind

📚Stacking Rules

Cumulative government assistance allowed

🛡️Proof of Matching Required

Documentation of additional funding sources required

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📊What Are the Reporting Requirements?

🗓️Reporting Frequency

final only

📑Reporting Requirements

• a claim form summarizing expenditures
• copies of all paid invoices with verification of payment
• a report on the project and its results in terms of project objectives
• copies of material produced (or when applicable, photos of material funded)

🔍Audit Requirements

Recipients must meet the eligibility criteria and submit a complete application to the Department of Agriculture;

📢Branding Requirements

Projects may be funded below the maximum contribution rate upon assessment and availability of funding.

🗄️Record Retention Period

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