AgricultureID

Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness

OMAFA

Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness is the first-order subnational public authority responsible for agriculture in Ontario.

Jurisdiction
Ontario
Government level
Provincial
Authority type
Ministry
Status
Active

Visit the official websitehttps://www.ontario.ca/page/ministry-agriculture-food-and-agribusiness

Responsibilities

Each item below is recorded from the authority’s own published material, not inferred from its name.

  • Farm policy

    Agriculture is a named portfolio in the ministry’s official title.

    Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness

  • Food safety

    Food is a named portfolio in the ministry’s official title.

    Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness

  • Agricultural trade

    Agribusiness is a named portfolio in the ministry’s current official title.

    Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness

Former name

Established by reading the body’s own material. An alias, an abbreviation or a legacy domain is not a former name.

Ontario

  • Observed 2026-08-20Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) → Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness (OMAFA)date not published by the sourceThe ministry’s own page was loaded on 2026-08-20 under the title Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness, and the OMAFRA URLs no longer resolve. A 404 alone would not have established this: a government URL that stops resolving usually means a machinery-of-government rename rather than an abolished body, and it was the current title that settled which.
    • The date the rename took effect is not established here. Only the date AgricultureID observed the current title is known.

History records what an official source published at a point in time. Where the source states the date a change took effect, that date is shown; where it does not, only the date AgricultureID observed the change is shown, and it is labelled as such.

Why this body is recorded

Official name of the body responsible in Ontario.

Official source
Source page
https://www.ontario.ca/page/ministry-agriculture-food-and-agribusiness
What the source says
“Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness”(official name)
Standing
Verified against the sourcelast verified 2026-08-20
  • Portfolio scope is taken from the body’s official title; the statutory powers behind each portfolio are set out in law and are not asserted here.
  • The ministry was formerly the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA); its old URLs no longer resolve, and the former name is recorded in the change history rather than as an alias, because an alias is not evidence of a former name.

Evidence shows what an official source published and what AgricultureID made of it. The two are always shown separately: quoted text is the source’s own, and a normalised value is AgricultureID’s vocabulary, not a quotation.

Sources and verification

Important limitations

  • Portfolio scope is taken from the body’s official title; the statutory powers behind each portfolio are set out in law and are not asserted here.
  • The ministry was formerly the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA); its old URLs no longer resolve, and the former name is recorded in the change history rather than as an alias, because an alias is not evidence of a former name.

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