Ontario and Quebec farmers will be given new tools and knowledge to manage greenhouse and fruit/vegetable pests thanks to pest management research projects the agriculture ministries in the two provinces are working on together.
The pest management projects began in 2015 and will end in the summer of 2018. They’re part of a package of research that includes work on water management, which also began this year and will end in 2018. There are three integrated pest management and three water projects.
Each province put in $750,000 plus indirect costs for the six projects, according to an email sent by Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs spokesperson Susin Micallef. Micallef noted in her email that the responses it contained were on behalf of Ontario Agriculture Minister Jeff Leal’s office.
