date:Aug 30, 2013
ter compete in the market-place.
The growers in our cooperative and our farmers want to thank both levels of government for this investment, he said. With this change we are now capable of matching Washington packing costs. We weren't able to do that before but we are now.
The investment was made under the federal and provincial Tree Fruit Market and Infrastructure Initiative and comes on the heels of a $5 million funding announcement in 2010 and a further $2.7 million last year that was aimed