CSIDC's mandate is to help maintain a viable agriculture industry, to support a sound rural economy and to preserve a healthy environment. In order to meet these goals, CSIDC strive to:

1. Identify higher value cropping opportunities through market research to help target research and demonstration programs.
2. Conduct, fund and provide support for irrigated research and demonstration to meet the needs of irrigation producers and industry in the province.
3. Develop, refine, and test methods of diversifying and intensifying irrigated crop production in co-operation with outside research agencies.
4. Demonstrate sustainable irrigated crop production practices at CSIDC.
5. Promote and extend sustainable irrigated crop production methods.
6. Evaluate the environmental sustainability of irrigation, and determine the impact of irrigation on natural and physical resources.
7. Promote a Western Canadian approach to irrigation sustainability by interacting with staff from similar institutions and industry across Western Canada, and by transferring this technology to the industry. This will increase levels of co-operation in marketing, research and demonstration in support of diversification and value added processing.

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Centre funding

Funding is provided through federal (PFRA) and provincial (Saskatchewan Agriculture & Food) A-base budgets, along with program funding from federal/provincial agreements.

The Canada/Saskatchewan Agreement on Water Based Economic Development (PAWBED) provided funding support for irrigated R&D. The R&Dportion was managed by CSIDC and included support to enhance on-Centre programming and for proposal based activity. It funded 26 research projects and 106 field scale demonstrations. Benefit cost analysis of the R&Dportion of this program displayed returns ranging from 3:1 for cereals to 12:1 for potato.

More recently, an Industry-driven program, the Canada-Saskatchewan Agri-Food Innovation Fund (AFIF) has provided funding to support specialized crop, potato and vegetable agronomy work. This program has also provided CSIDC with the resources necessary to construct the vegetable and potato storage facility and to retro-fit the existing greenhouse.

For more information , contact:
Laurie Tollefson
CSIDC
(306) 867-5404

John Linsley
Saskatchewan Agriculture & Food
(306) 867-5527

Les Bohrson
ICDC
Swift Current, Sask.
(306) 778-5043

Sandra Bathgate
SIPA
Central Butte, Sask.
(306) 796-4420