Canadian farmers reported planting 528,000 acres of fruits and vegetables in the spring of 2009, down 3.0 percent from the spring of 2008.
Vegetable growers planted about 240,000 acres of vegetables, of which they expect to harvest 238,000 acres.
Harvesting area is down 1.3 percent from the previous year. More than half (58.2 percent) of the 2009 crop will go to fresh markets, and the rest for processing.
Quebec and Ontario continue to represent 83.7 percent of the expected vegetable area.
The five major processing vegetables, sweet corn, green peas, carrots, beans and tomatoes, accounted for 58.7 percent of the total expected vegetable area in Canada.
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