Government funding and labor shortages were key issues at the annual convention of the B.C. Fruit Growers’ Association in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, in January. Two of the resolutions passed by delegates dealt with concerns about government funding, despite an announcement about the continuation of a government-funded replant program. Delegates voted to continue lobbying government for a long-term replant program and to urge the province to increase funding to agriculture from the current 3.3 percent of agriculture’s gross domestic product to 16.4 percent, the average of the other provincial governments. “Replant is one of the key activities for the industry […]