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Canadian farmers reported planting 528,000 acres of fruits and vegetables in the spring of 2009, down 3.0% from the spring of 2008.
Vegetable growers planted about 240,000 acres of vegetables, of which they expect to harvest 238,000 acres.
Harvesting area is down 1.3% from the previous year. More than half (58.2%) of the 2009 crop will go to fresh markets, and the rest for processing.
Quebec and Ontario continue to represent 83.7% of the expected vegetable area.
The five major processing vegetables, sweet corn, green peas, carrots, beans and tomatoes, accounted for 58.7% of the total expected vegetable area in Canada.
Farmers indicated increased plantings of lettuce, broccoli, cucumbers and gherkins, leeks and shallots. They reported, however, fewer green peas, tomatoes, dry onions and carrots.
Fruit operators planned to cultivate 288,000 acres of fruit, of which 190,000 acres, around two-thirds of the area, will bear fruit this year. This fruit-bearing area is down 3.6% from a year earlier.
About two-thirds of the fruit from the fruit-bearing area will be processed, including almost all the low-bush blueberry, cranberry, vinifera grape and sour cherry area.
Apples, blueberries and grapes account for 82.6% of the planted area in 2009. New planting for apples along with other tree fruit such as peaches and pears has declined, specifically in Ontario. On the other hand, new plantings of vinifera grapes and cranberries increased this spring.
Data from the Fruit and Vegetable Area Survey, conducted in the spring of 2009, are now available.
Available on CANSIM: tables 001-0009, 001-0012 and 001-0013.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey numbers, including related surveys, 3407 and 3411.
The June 2009 issue of Fruit and Vegetable Production, Vol. 78, no. 1 (22-003-X, free), will soon be available.
For more information, contact Client Services (toll-free 1-800-465-1991; agriculture@statcan.gc.ca). To enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Lorie Shinder (613-951-0524; lorie.shinder@statcan.gc.ca), Agriculture Division.
