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Kosher and Halal Investment Program │ Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

September 1, 2026

Value

Up to $2M

Description

The Kosher and Halal Investment Program is a $25-million contribution funding program over 2 fiscal years (2025-26 to 2026-27).

Program objectives:

If you receive funding, you’ll work to meet the program objectives:

  • Help the Canadian red meat (beef and veal) sector mitigate the challenges inherent in slaughter in accordance with Judaic or Islamic law
  • Help Canadian red meat (beef and veal) slaughter establishments increase their processing and production efficiency of kosher and/or halal red meat

Eligible Applicants

You must meet all the following criteria to be eligible.

  • You’re one of the following federally licensednote
    • for-profit organization types incorporated in Canada
    • you actively engage in red meat slaughter processing and production for kosher and/or halal
    • you have demonstratable plans to enter the kosher and/or halal red meat processing industry
  • You demonstrate or provide efficiency and/or productivity plans to increase production of kosher and/or halal production that are recommended or will be recommended by either:
    • a credible person within your own organization that has signed off to the validity of the plans (such as, an industry expert or Professional Engineer)
    • an external resource that can provide credible analysis or validation of existing plans
  • You identify if your facility currently engages in kosher and/or halal red meat production and if the project will be increasing productivity and/or efficiency in or has demonstratable plans to begin production in (table to be provided in application form):
    • Kosher
    • Halal
    • Both
  • You’re a legal entity capable of entering into a legally binding agreement

Eligible Expenses

Your project(s) may support multiple eligible activities under the following themes.

Efficiency and productivity evaluations

  • Acquire expertise to develop to undertake an efficiency/productivity analysis of your slaughter establishment operations to recommend improvements to on-site kosher and/or halal production

Investments to support kosher and/or halal slaughter based on efficiency and productivity evaluations or plans

  • Purchase, delivery, installation and implementation of equipment
  • Purchase, delivery, installation and implementation of improvement technologies
  • Purchase and/or upgrade equipment and storage systems

Eligible expenditures will be limited to the following nature and type:

  • Acquire expertise for efficiency and productivity evaluations
  • Purchase, delivery, install and implement equipment including
    • cattle-handling equipment
    • stunning apparatus
    • slaughtering devices and lines including conveyors, elevators and winches
    • meat dismembering lines and processing including deboning
    • scales
    • cutting tools
    • blades
  • Purchase, delivery, install and implement improvement technologies including:
    • consciousness assessment tools
    • production line improvements
  • Purchase and/or upgrade equipment and storage systems including:
    • cooler upgrades
    • building expansions/modifications

Deadline Date

Submit your application until September 1, 2026.

Contact

Contact Name: Kosher and Halal Investment Program

Phone Number: 1-877-246-4682

E-mail Address: aafc.KHIP-PICH.aac@agr.gc.ca

Website: https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/programs/kosher-halal-investment

Industry:

Agriculture

Location:

Alberta, British Colombia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, NWT, Ontario, PEI, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon

Tags:

Halal

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