The Nova Scotia authorities introduced at the moment it should give $15 million to growers of grapes and different fruit whose crops had been destroyed in final month’s excessive chilly snap.
Agriculture Minister Greg Morrow, who made the funding announcement Thursday morning in Wolfville, says he hopes this funding will cowl among the “extraordinary” prices that fruit growers are going through resulting from broken crops.
Steve Ells, president of the Grape Growers Association of Nova Scotia, has mentioned that when temperatures dropped to -25 C in early February amid an in any other case unseasonably gentle winter, greater than 95 per cent of among the most prized types of grapes in Nova Scotia had been destroyed.
The Department of Agriculture says early assessments present that some Nova Scotia farms are anticipated to lose all of this yr’s grape, raspberry, peach, cherry and plum harvests because of the chilly.
Ells says the intense climate prompted important grape vine injury that’s more likely to affect subsequent yr’s crop as properly.
The authorities says it should work with farmers to design and ship monetary aid applications to assist handle losses that aren’t lined by crop insurance coverage.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed March 9, 2023.
