Agricultural innovation key to sector growth

High-yielding vertical farms and robotics are among the ways ag is using tech to improve.

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains, pictured in January, last year announced the government would invest in a new protein industries supercluster into which businesses are also funnelling hundreds of millions of dollars. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MARTIN SCANLON

March 20, 2019

Recognizing Canada’s large natural endowment of water and arable land, Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada (ISED) defined agri-food as one of six interconnected sectors with tremendous global growth prospects. But, as with the other five sectors, the government of Canada emphasize...

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