Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau offered more than $2.3 million for research into Potato Early Dying (PED) disease.
She made the announcement in a speech to the annual meeting of the Canadian Horticulture Council in Ottawa.
“The purpose of the project is to provide potato growers with the knowledge, tools and technologies they need to manage Potato Early Dying, which results in premature aging, limiting potato yield by as much as 50 per cent,” said a government news release.
As part of the project, the Canadian Horticulture Council will survey potato fields to determine the levels of PED and evaluate the control of PED through growers’ cropping systems, best management practices and control products.
