Canada: Ottawa and Quebec invest nearly CA$250,000 in a project of experimental hop variety

Growing hops – abandoned for about fifty years in Quebec - is being reborn in two fields in Pontiac. A dozen of varieties are currently under study by the Centre for Research and Agricultural Technological Development of Outaouais (CREDETAO). The full analysis should be completed in late summer 2011, but the experience has already attracted both curiosity and interest of farmers and brewers in the province, Cypresse.ca reported on August 12.

The Federal Government announced a contribution to the project of CA$150,000. For them it was essential that a center for research and development focuses on the culture that draws so much interest from the farmers and the beer industry of Quebec.

From its part, Quebec has made a nonrefundable contribution of CA$ 93,449, noting that the experiment, which was launched two years ago by two farmers from Pontiac, is unique to Quebec.

The results of analysis conducted in Pontiac will create a guide for farmers willing to engage themselves in the cultivation of hops.

13 August, 2010