I’m realizing a lot of ppl might not understand what horticulture includes. @CHC_CCH has some great stats on their website that may help paint a more detailed pic of what Horticulture brings to 🇨🇦:
Field Vegetables, Fruit, GreenHouse Veg and Potato production.
A few familiar/delicious players in 🇨🇦 horticulture include:
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🇨🇦 field veg stats:
9,000 farms
producing 2 million tonnes/yr
Farm gate value: $1,037,592,000

top 3 commodities by:
area: Corn, peas, beans
tonnes: tomato, carrot, dry onion
$$: carrot, lettuce, tomato
🇨🇦Fruit stats:
7845 farms
farm gate value:$1,033,786,000

top 3 commodities by:
area: blueberry, apple, grape
$$: blueberry, apple, grape

Top producing provinces by;
Area: PQ, BC, NS
$$: BC, ON, PQ
🇨🇦Greenhouse Veg stats:
658 farms
15M sq meters
farm gate value: $1,287,236,000

top commodities by:
province: ON,BC, PQ
$$: tomato, peppers, cucumber, lettuce
🇨🇦Potato Stats:
1,005 farms
57,124 acres
farm gate value:
$1,038,711,000

Producing 1,965,065 tonnes per year.
Top producing provs: PEI 💜😉, MB, AB
Making sure the 🇨🇦farmers we rely on have the confidence they need to grow these crops for us - that is really important, now more than ever.

#domesticfoodmatters
🇨🇦Ag is hugely diverse.

In these uncertain times all our farmers need to know that Canadians value and support food production.

Let your MP know too.

It all matters.

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