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IPFS News Link • Agriculture

Hunger for tomatoes turns Canada into greenhouse superpower

• arclein
Mastronardi is the biggest player in Canada's booming greenhouse vegetable industry, but the family has plenty of company. The Leamington area along the north shore of Lake Erie houses the greatest concentration of vegetable greenhouses in North America ?" an empire under glass. Shoppers routinely buy produce from California, Florida and Mexico, especially in winter. Yet veggies increasingly flow the other way, too. Ideal conditions ?" a temperate climate, innovative growers and proximity to the biggest markets in North America ?" have caused this industry to explode.

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