Quebec’s provincial government will put up $150,000 to support the development of la Laiterie de l’Outaouais, a $2.76 million project planned for Gatineau’s agri-food industrial park.
The new co-operative dairy, scheduled to open this summer, is expected to produce milk, organic milk, chocolate milk, maple-flavoured milk and cream and plans to add ice cream, cheese and yogurt to its product line over time.
The province’s funding will help create a business that provides the region with products from its own dairy farms, MNA Norman MacMillan said in a release Thursday.
The project stems from the closure of la Laiterie Château in December 2006, the province said, referring to a dairy that had operated for 60 years and held 35 per cent of the market share in the region.
The old dairy’s closure spurred local consumers, who with the support of the Gatineau Chamber of Commerce and a number of local councils and businesses created a new co-operative to finance the project, the province said.
