The Government of Manitoba has announced that it will be providing Assiniboine College with a combined $120M in capital funding and bridge financing to support the new Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture. MB states that the centre will help the province to meet the labour demands of its agriculture industry, which is expected to grow substantially. The centre is expected to more-than-double the student capacity of the Russ Edwards School of Agriculture and Environment. “[The centre] is an important project that will help to improve value-added processing and export development capacity in the agriculture sector,” said Assiniboine President Mark Frison. “Today’s commitment allows us to go tender immediately.”
