Agro-processing

The CSIR Agro-processing Research Group, in collaboration with the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) and supported by the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), invites communities and Indigenous Knowledge (IK) systems-based organisations/communities of practice in the cannabis sector to submit expressions of interest (EoI) in cannabis germplasm maintenance, cultivation research and the development of high Tetrahydrocannabinol products or processes on a semi-commercial or commercial scale. 

The Agro-Processing Support Scheme (APSS) aims to stimulate investment by the South African agro-processing / beneficiation (agri-business) enterprises. The investment should demonstrate that it will achieve some of the following:
Increased capacity, employment creation, modernised machinery and equipment, competitiveness and productivity improvement and broadening participation.

Benefits;