Three weeks ago the Honourable Ed Holder, Minister of State (Science and Technology), announced a $333-million investment for new research infrastructure through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Fund.
Now Vineland Research and Innovation Centre has been awarded $614,280 in research funding from the CFI to provide growers with resources to produce high quality and competitive crops.
JGS Limited (part of the GGS group of companies) is currently in the process of constructing a 3700 m2 (approximately 40,000 sqft) state of the art pre-commercial scale research greenhouse for the Vineland Research Center. There are only a few pre-commercial scale research greenhouses in North America, and this will be the largest focused on horticulture research. Vineland’s new complex is designed to provide large compartmentalized spaces with enhanced environmental controls and a versatile layout, to allow researchers to work in spaces ideally suited to their research needs. There are two distinct growing areas one designed for vegetable crops with an under gutter height of 7m, and the other for floral production research has 4m high gutters.
