Primary Growth Partnership

PGP Round 9 has now opened. Applications must be received at MPI in Wellington by midday on Thursday 19 September 2013.

Also, results are now available for PGP Round 8, which closed in October 2012. Nine applications were received, requesting more than $81 million in Crown funds. Of these, eight proposals were declined and one was approved, after further information was received.

The Primary Growth Partnership is a government-industry initiative that invests in significant programmes of research and innovation to boost the economic growth and sustainability of New Zealand’s primary, forestry and food sectors

The scheme focuses on boosting productivity through ongoing investment in innovation and delivering long-term economic growth and sustainability across the primary sectors, from producer to consumer.

Investments cover the whole of the value chain, including education and skills development, research and development, product development, commercialisation, commercial development and technology transfer.

Industries included in the Primary Growth Partnership are:

  • pastoral (including wool) and arable production;
  • horticulture;
  • seafood (including aquaculture);
  • forestry and wood products; and
  • food processing (including nutriceuticals and bioactives).

Eight funding rounds have been held.

Funding

Budget 2009 included funding for PGP of $30 million for 2009/10; $40 million for 2010/11; $50 million for 2011/12; and $70 million per annum from 2012/13 to be appropriated to Vote: Agriculture and Forestry.

Each programme is a joint investment between the Crown and industry. Qualifying contributions by the co-investors must be equal to or greater than the Crown Primary Growth Partnership funding.

The minimum amount that the Primary Growth Partnership will co-invest, and which must be matched by industry co-investors, is $500,000 excluding GST over the lifetime of the co-investment programme.

Current PGP Programmes

PGP Programme Profiles booklet, June 2013

Updates

Monitoring

The Government has processes in place to ensure that programme funding is used in accordance with the PGP contract. MPI’s oversight includes a requirement for quarterly reporting against the contractual milestones, and progress payments are tied to this information. As part of MPI’s monitoring, it also carries out financial management audits within each programme.

Half-yearly updates on Crown investment in PGP Programmes will be posted here.

How to Apply and Find the PGP Proposal Form

If you have questions regarding the PGP, please send an email to pgp@mpi.govt.nz or phone Joseph Montgomery, PGP Manager, on 04 894 0216 or Janet van Polanen, Primary Growth Partnership Advisor, on 04 894 0323. (Media, please call: 029 894 0328.)

Investment Advisory Panel

The Panel is responsible for using their expertise and judgement to advise on decisions about the allocation of PGP co-investments, to help ensure that PGP investments are able to achieve the aims of economic growth and sustainability.

In addition, you will also be reporting to the Panel (if successful at each stage) on the development of your business plan and the progress on your co-investment programme.

For more information on the Investment Advisory Panel visit People.

Resources

Background information

Further information

Please call Joseph Montgomery, PGP Secretariat Manager, on 04 894 0216 or Janet van Polanen, Primary Growth Partnership Advisor, on 04 894 0323, or email pgp@mpi.govt.nz

 

Last Updated: 17 June 2013

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