Farmers will receive $15-million in direct payments to help with immediate costs and compensation claims tied to lost crops
B.C. fruit growers who have been hit hard by consecutive years of bad harvests and the closing of a major packing house will be receiving additional funding from the province.
Farmers will receive $15-million in direct payments through changes to the AgriStability program, a provincial risk-management program that offers personalized coverage for farmers. The province is raising compensation rates for losses from 80 per cent to 90 per cent. The payments will help with immediate costs and compensation claims tied to lost crops.
Mr. Eby also said that he had written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau requesting further federal assistance, such as a two-year stay-in-place on advanced payment loans that farmers may have received. He is also calling on the federal government to review the subsidy programs offered to growers to make’s sector more competitive with the U.S. industry, which receives heavy subsidies from both state and federal governments, Mr. Eby said.
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