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Field-grown vegetables
Area at record high
Although small in terms of area, vegetables played a
role in the move to more non-traditional crops, with an area 4.8% larger
than in 1996 and an all-time high of 330,752 acres. Canadians may be taking
to heart the Canada Food Guide recommendation of 5 to 10 servings of fruits
and vegetables a day.
Beans, once fifth most common, now rank third behind
sweet corn and green peas, with 31.2% more area than in 1996. Large increases
in the "other vegetables" category in Saskatchewan, and especially Alberta,
are attributable in part to more area given to culinary and medicinal
herbs such as basil and echinacea.
The top five vegetables in terms of area, Canada
2001
| Vegetable |
2001 area (acres) |
Percentage change
(1996-2001) |
| Sweet corn |
87,696 |
-6.3% |
| Green peas |
43,132 |
6.7% |
| Beans |
30,001 |
31.2% |
| Tomatoes |
23,865 |
-6.6% |
| Carrots |
23,184 |
-2.2% |
Sweet corn area declined 6.3% since 1996, although it
is still the most common vegetable, with 26.5% of all vegetable area.
The top four vegetables grown in Canada —sweet corn, green peas,
beans and tomatoes — accounted for over half of all vegetables grown.
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