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Value-Added Services

Find support for your prospective or existing value-added agriculture business from the ministry's Value-Added Unit or Saskatchewan's value-added research chairs.
  1. Value-Added Support
  2. Value-Added Processing Research Chairs
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1. Value-Added Support

The Ministry of Agriculture's Value-Added Unit has knowledge of many disciplines, including agriculture, economic development, product development and marketing, intellectual property, international and domestic logistics and value chain partnerships.

For more information on Value-Added Unit or value-added related questions, email agrivalue@gov.sk.ca.

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2. Value-Added Processing Research Chairs

To ensure that Saskatchewan has the capacity and depth to develop new agricultural knowledge and technologies, the Government of Saskatchewan supports the following research positions dedicated to value-added processing:

Ministry of Agriculture Endowed Chairs

Dr. Rex Newkirk: Feed Processing Technology – Develops and refines feed processing technology and improves feed quality and nutritional value.

Dr. Yongfeng Ai: Carbohydrate Quality and Utilization – Fractionates and utilize plant carbohydrates (pulse starch) in food and feed applications.

Dr. Bishnu Acharya, Bioprocess Engineering – Develops process to produce functional food from waste biomass.

Strategic Research Program Chairs funded by the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership

Dr. Martin Reaney, Lipid Quality & Utilization – Collaborates with industry to ensure commercial relevance of research and supports the growing value-added industry arising from oilseed and lipid utilization.

Dr. Michael Nickerson: Protein Quality & Utilization – Utilizes protein fractions from pulse and cereal crops and oilseed meal for food and feed.

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