Around the same time as COVID-19 was creeping into North America, another virus was making its way overseas. First identified in Israel in 2014, tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) has since infected tomato plants worldwide.According to Statistics Canada, Canadian field and greenhouse farmers produced 798,970 tonnes of tomatoes in 2020, representing a value of over $700 million. Ontario is by far the largest producer of greenhouse tomatoes in Canada, producing an output nearly five times that of British Columbia and almost eight times more than Quebec. And a significant portion of Canada’s tomatoes, 151.3 million kilograms in 2020 alone, are exported to the United States.
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