| Abstract: | Challenge for Growth: An Agri-Food Strategy for Canada was announced by the Honourable Eugene Whelan on July 17, 1981. The main rationale behind the strategy is that there is a bright long-term future for the agri-food sector provided certain constraints to increased production and improved marketing can be overcome. The strategy looks at the next twenty years and identifies constraints to achieving the full potential of the agri-food system, along with possible solutions to overcoming those roadblocks. The potential for Canada's agri-food sector, given a certain expectation for world agri-food prices, would permit an increase of two-thirds in output by the turn of the century with a doubling of the 1980 current dollar value of agricultural production. |
