00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.699438 CaOODSP 20221107134529 cr ||||||||||| 150407s2014 oncb #ob f000 0 eng d 978-1-100-22716-0 CaOODSP eng n-cn--- A118-10/32-2014E-PDF Crop profile for asparagus in Canada, 2012 [electronic resource] / prepared by: Pesticide Risk Reduction Program, Pest Management Centre. 1st ed. Ottawa : Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, c2014. 43 p. : maps Title from cover. Issued also in French under title: Profil de la culture de l'asperge au Canada, 2012. Includes bibliographical references. "Asparagus is the fastest growing fresh market vegetable commodity with respect to consumption on a per capita basis throughout all of North America. It is best known (and suited) as a fresh vegetable in the marketplace. However, this crop is also canned, frozen and pickled. The pickling of asparagus is mostly a cottage industry with limited markets. There is some white asparagus produced for the specialty markets by using a process of eliminating light so as to create a spear devoid of chlorophyll. There is increasing interest in organically grown asparagus, although weed pressure can be a serious problem in organic production"--Industry overview, p. 1. gccst Crops gccst Vegetables gccst Pesticides Canada. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Pest Management Centre. Pesticide Risk Reduction Program (Canada) Profil de la culture de l'asperge au Canada, 2012 (CaOODSP)9.643411 Crop profile for asparagus in Canada, 2015 (CaOODSP)9.849044 PDF 1.22 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2014/aac-aafc/A118-10-32-2014-eng.pdf AAFC No.: 12207E