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Ontario Growing Agri-Food Sector in Northern Ontario

Ontario is helping to build capacity in Northern Ontario's agri-food sector, and investing in the work of northern farmers to improve their land, diversify crops and expand their businesses.

Through the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation, the province is investing in 27 agriculture projects across the North, including an assessment of the North's dairy processing sector by the Northern Ontario Farm Innovation Alliance (NOFIA). NOFIA is creating a Northern Ontario Dairy Strategy which is aimed at identifying opportunities to create new markets for the region's dairy producers.

Investing in northern agriculture is part of the government's plan to support care, create opportunity and make life more affordable during this period of rapid economic change. The plan includes free prescription drugs for everyone under 25, and 65 or over, through the biggest expansion of medicare in a generation, free tuition for hundreds of thousands of students, a higher minimum wage and better working conditions, and free preschool child care from 2 ½ to kindergarten.

Source : Ontario.ca

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