Work to monitor, study and contain a yield-robbing disease of tender fruit trees will now fall under a new five-year, $17 million federal program.
First pledged in Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's pre-election budget in March, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and federal ag department on Thursday launched a new Plum Pox Monitoring and Management Program (PPMMP).
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