Ramesh Eerpina is offering free seed to any Ontario farmer who wants to
try growing a crop of okra.
It’s a green pod-like vegetable popular in the Southern United States
and some other countries.
The Research and Innovation Centre in Vineland has been working on the
crop for more than five years, and now thinks that yields of 20,000 kilograms
per hectare are possible.
Eerpina, who is the senior research technician of vegetable production
with the Vineland Research and Innovation Centre, says more than six million
kilograms was imported in 2015 for sale in Ontario stores.
There’s okra information on the institute’s webside: VinelandResearch.com.
