Canada: BC cherry calls for government support falls on deaf ears
date:Aug 13, 2012
Cherry prices have plummeted, leaving some growers with little choice but to leave their crops unpicked. Okanagan fruit grower Nick Kiran says he can barely get by.

Even if it's a dollar you can survive, Kiran said. But 40 cents? You're locked away in a hole in a dungeon. It's a very, very precarious situation.

Kiran says it is not worth harvesting, despite the fact that he is sat on a 50,000 pound crop this year.

Fellow farmer Kirpal Bopari, president of the BC Fruit Growers Association, is
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