New strategy promotes local food, foreign markets

British Columbia's new agrifoods strategy, released under the BC Jobs Plan, charts a path forward to increasing local food production and processing, while supporting job growth and healthy communities.The agrifoods sector has great potential for growth and offers exciting opportunities to inject new dollars into the BC economy. The strategy builds on the 2008-11 BC Agriculture Plan, guiding the further development of BC's agrifoods sector with a goal of increasing industry revenues from the current $10.5 billion a year to $14 billion annually by 2017.

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