How You Benefit From The PEFIP Program
The program supports on-farm investments in:
- increasing efficiency or productivity
- improving on-farm food safety and biosecurity
- improving environmental sustainability
- responding to consumer preferences (improving animal welfare, adopting alternative housing systems, transitioning to organic production, etc.)
Examples of eligible activities include:
- Hiring of external expertise (consultants) to assess how the poultry and/or egg farm enterprise can improve efficiencies and productivity
- Construction of new barns, expansion of existing barns, and/or building retrofits
- Purchasing, shipping, and installing new equipment (including commercial-off-the-shelf software and IT infrastructure)
- Training related to other eligible project activities
To be eligible, applicants must:
- be an individual and/or legal entity capable of entering into legally binding agreements/contracts
- have held quota/shares of provincial production on January 1, 2021
- be one of the following types:
- Poultry and/or egg producers holding quota
- Poultry and/or egg producers licensed, or equivalent, by a provincial marketing agency
- Atlantic Canada Hatching Egg Producers
- Poultry and/or egg producers under new entrant programs with loaned quota and/or whole-farm leases with loaned quota at the time of the calculation
The term 'poultry and/or egg producers' includes Canadian:
- chicken producers
- turkey producers
- turkey breeders
- egg producers
- broiler hatching egg producers