Georgia Safety and Quality Investment in Livestock (SQIL)

Land O'Lakes Venture37 is leading the USDA-funded Food for Progress Safety and Quality Investment in Livestock (SQIL) project to improve food safety and quality along Georgia’s dairy and beef value chains to increase the competitiveness and trade in both sectors. This will increase domestic, regional and export demand and sales, increase investment in productivity, increase employment opportunities in both sectors and provide these sectors with growth and trading capacity. The project is partnering with GFA, uniting agribusiness know-how with industry-leading food safety acumen and deep Georgian agribusiness connections. The project complements the development activities of other Georgian Government agencies and donor funded initiatives relevant to achieving SQIL objectives. Improving the capacity for development, presentation and implementation of competitiveness improvement policies and the institutional framework of Georgian Governmental agencies is a key SQIL objective. From farm-to-fork, this project will reduce losses and boost competitiveness, productivity, product diversification and application of Good Agricultural Practices.