Up to $2.69 million will be made available to Nova Scotia fruit tree growers to help them financially recover from an outbreak of fire blight in trees that followed post-tropical storm Arthur in 2014.
The federal and provincial governments announced funding for the five-year initiative on Tuesday night, which will be paid for 60 and 40 per cent each, respectively.
Fire blight is a disease that affects apple and pear trees; 95 per cent of orchards in the province were affected by the 2014 outbreak.
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