Funding boost pollinates innovations for bee hives, cranberries
(WorldNews Politics)

The following 28 projects received over $2.7 million in support from the Canadian Agricultural Partnership under the Canada-BC Agri-Innovation Program. This brings the total funding to over $5.3 million since the program began in April 2018. Agri-Forest Bio Technologies (Kelowna): $55,000 to create more blight resistant hazelnut starter plants for nurseries, orchards and distributers Artificially Inspired Technologies Inc. (Surrey): $10,000 to create a robot prototype that will help farmers harvest strawberries BC Cranberry Marketing Commission (Abbotsford): $10,725 to support a study on artificial pollination to increase yield across different varieties of cranberries BC Cranberry Marketing...