The Manitoba government is putting up $13 million for a centre aimed at helping grain producers find new international trading partners.
The centre will help showcase Manitoba’s grains and drive up global demand for Canadian products.
Agriculture Minister and Dauphin MLA Ron Kostyshyn sees this as having benefits all the way down to grain and cereal farmers in the Parkland.
"This is an experimental kitchen. So if you have a certain variety of wheat, and a pastta clientelle, there are certain characteristics that in pasta or noodles that they require, this is a partnership that will develop from from the grain farmers through Cereals Canada in developing a unique veriaty of an ingredient that comes into the pasta that the international clientelle are always asking for."
The building, which will be located in Winnipeg's Exchange district, is to include space for offices, training and research.
The project is a three-way funding partnership between Cereals Canada, the province and the federal government.
