A farmer works a potato field in North Tryon, P.E.I. July 13, 2000. Photo Credit: Andrew Vaughan / The Canadian Press

Environment Canada13. June 2021

Frozen Food Giant Looks Toward Sustainable Farming

The world’s largest manufacturer of frozen potato products plans on implementing sustainable agriculture across all its potato fields by 2030, in a drive to fight climate change.

“This requires a total rethink for us in terms of how we do agriculture,” says McCain vice-president of external affairs and sustainability Charlie Angelakos. “It’s an ecosystem-based approach to farming that focuses on protecting and improving soil health and biodiversity” with better water retention, less irrigation, and fertilizer, while also yielding more potatoes.

McCain Foods Ltd, a Canadian multinational company, wants to adopt a sustainable technique – dubbed regenerative agriculture – on its 149,733 hectares worldwide of fields that, among other perks, promote biodiversity, captures carbon, and increases water efficiency. The company will first implement regenerative agriculture on three farms by 2025 before rolling it out on a larger scale in an economically viable way.

Source:
Toronto Star

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