SPG Pumps $23 Million Into Pulse Research
SASKATOON - Jun 16/16 - SNS -- Saskatchewan Pulse Growers (SPG) will invest almost $23 million in pulse crop breeding efforts at the University of Saskatchewan's Crop Development Centre (CDC) for the 2015-16 to 2019-20 time period.
This funding will be applied to the third five-year term in SPG's 15-year pulse crop breeding agreement with the CDC and will support continued work in the areas of pea, lentil, chickpea, dry bean, and | bean breeding.
Since 1997, SPG has provided significant funding for the pulse breeding program and has the exclusive commercialization rights for CDC pulse crop varieties. SPG and CDC signed the current 15-year pulse crop breeding Agreement in 2005. The funding for the first five-year term of the agreement was $6.2 million. The funding for the second five-year term increased to $9.2 million. Since 1997, more than 110 pulse crop varieties developed by the CDC have been released through SPG's variety release program.
Statistics Canada estimates record pulse crop seeded acre in 2016 at 7.3 million acres. Much of this growth has been driven by a doubling of lentil acres in the Province since 2012.
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