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Sustainability
Learn more about the new tools and technologies that will help make fruit and vegetable production cleaner, greener and more cost effective.
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The latest news from the Ontario Fruit & Vegetable Growers' Association.
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Food production
Here in Ontario, we’re able to produce many of our own fruits and vegetables. Learn more about what that means and why that matters to all of us.
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60th anniversary of temporary foreign workers capped by Jamaican minister of labour
After a tour of table-top strawberries and high-tunnel raspberries, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., Jamaican minister of labour, led the speeches at a 60th celebratory event hosted by Strawberry Tyme Farms, near Simcoe, Ontario. This was the culmination of other events in the Greater Toronto Area and Collingwood, Ontario to honour the temporary foreign workers from Jamaica who have travelled for 60 years under the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program.
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Food security depends on farm competitiveness
For fruit and vegetable growers, the conversation around food security is not new. We live it every day through rising input costs, unpredictable weather, changing markets, labour challenges and growing competition from imported products produced under different cost and regulatory structures.
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Statement from the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ Association: Protecting crops, protecting food: OFVGA welcomes Bill C-30
The Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers' Association (OFVGA) welcomes the passing of Bill C-30 as an important step toward strengthening Canada's food security and helping growers protect the crops Canadians rely on. Bill C-30 broadens the mandate of Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to consider the impact of their decisions on Canada's food supply and agricultural competitiveness.
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The Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ Association has been advocating for Ontario’s fruit and vegetable growers for over 160 years.
The sector includes more than 3,500 family farms, which support over 30,000 farm-based, non-family jobs in Ontario. Over 125 different fruit and vegetable crops are grown in Ontario.
