Progress seen in bolstering agricultural research funding, though hiring gaps remain: advocates

Observers have witnessed a gradual reduction in the amount of funding towards the agricultural sciences in the last three decades, despite rising global competition from countries such as Brazil.
Agriculture advocates are calling on the federal government to establish an agricultural science and innovation framework.
The Trudeau government has made made strides in increasing publicly-funded agriculture research, though more work is needed to return to the previous high-water marks of the past decades, say advocates. Serge Buy, CEO of the Agricultural Institute of Canada, an advocacy body for agricultural resear...

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