Landscape Industry Executive Program
Green Industry News January-February 2012 Vol. 21 Issue 1
What’s inside: • St. James Park rejuvenation • Delegates represent Canadian nursery growers at the international Plant Fair • Growers focus on ways to control boxwood blight • FAQs about Red Seal • 2012 Manitoba Green Show
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Mr. Royal Galipeau, MP announced funding support for CNLA at the recent Landscape Ontario Awards of Excellence.
New Funding
for CNLA Programs BY RITA WEERDENBURG
Agriculture and AgriFood Canada (AAFC) announced the funding of two CNLA projects at the Landscape Ontario Awards of Excellence presentation. Through the Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP), the CNLA has received almost $370,000 over three years to undertake a rose breeding program in partnership with Vineland Research and Innovation Centre. This breeding program will follow-up the work previously carried out at Morden Research Centre in Manitoba, and the St. Jean Research Centre in Quebec. AAFC’s ornamental’s breeding program, which was discontinued, was responsible for the release of dozens of hardy shrub roses under the Explorer and Parkland series. More recently, by working with an industry consortium, several new varieties were also introduced under a new Canadian Artists series.
The announcement was made by the Honourable Royal Galipeau, M.P. of Ottawa-Orleans, on behalf of Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. In making the announcement, Mr. Galipeau made specific note of the economic contribution of the ornamentals’ sector to both the Canadian economy as well as the environmental and health benefits of the sector. Mr. Galipeau also announced the $36,000 that has been received by CNLA through AAFC’s AgriMarketing program to assist the association to further their export development initiatives. Although the two projects have very different objectives, the links between the two are obvious, as the CNLA expects there will be a good international market for the hardy and disease resistant roses that are expected to result from the CNLA-Vineland breeding program.