It’s well and good to have a National Food Strategy and a commitment to drive productivity and competitiveness in this country by strengthening resilience across the food chain.
But first, the country better have a national plant-breeding strategy, say farm groups. Because without a diversity of plants, the rest of the food chain collapses.
Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO), representing 28,000 barley, corn, oat, soybean and wheat farmers in the province, is the latest of several groups asking for a national plant-breeding strategy.
