Submissions

The last few years have been challenging for potato growers in Canada, following the restrictions on PEI potato exports to the USA in 2021. Although this decision has been revoked and exports have resumed, these decisions have caused irrevocable harm to the “PEI potato” brand and seed exports from PEI to other Canadian provinces is still prohibited. CFA further recommends that CFIA collaborates with the potato growers’ organizations on the development of compensation regulations that include loss of future potato revenue and devaluation of farmland due to declassification of farmland.