NATS 1560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Agricultural Policy, Vegetable Oil, Food Security
17 Mar 2017
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Government today assists agriculture with: land property legislation, agricultural policy, tax breaks, subsidies, infrastructure. Irrigation: transports, power, trade policy, domestic and import/export, food and public health policy, food safety regulations and enforcement, food security policy, national and global, scientific research, environmental policy. The food and beverage processing industry in canada. It is the second largest manufacturing industry in canada, . 5 billion sales in 2014, It"s the largest manufacturing employer and provides employment for. It supplies 75% of all processed food and beverage products available in canada and is the largest buyer of agricultural production. The largest sector is meat processing, followed by dairy, grain, and oilseed products: other sectors include beverage, bakeries and tortillas, animal food, fruit and vegetable preserving, specialty foods, seafood products, sugar and confectionery, and other foods. 65% of production is in ontario and quebec, 21% in alberta and british colombia,
