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CROP DEVELOPMENT
BRANCH
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Walter
Scott Building,
Regina, Saskatchewan
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Mandate:
To provide strategic
development and production services for a thriving crop sector.
Programs:
Specialist services
are provided in the areas of:
- Field Crops - for
the provincial dry land cereal, oilseed, special crops (pulse, herb
and spice), organic, forage and rangeland sectors.
- Horticulture -
for the vegetable, potato, fruit, greenhouse, nursery trade and dried
flower sectors.
- Apiculture - for
the honey bee and leafcutter bee sectors.
- Northern Agricultural
Products Unit - for the wild rice and special forest products sectors.
- Pest Management
- weed, insects, and plant diseases.
- Soil Management
- fertility, soil conservation and problem soils.
- Pest Diagnostics
- plant disease, insect identification, plant identification, herbicide
resistance screening - Crop Protection
Laboratory.
- Crop Production
Economics and Farm Business Management.
- Crops-based Business
Development including biomaterials and biofuels.
- Applied Research
- for the provincial Agri-ARM
(Applied Research Management) Program.
Legislation/Regulations/Policies:
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