Pest Management Centre

The Pest Management Centre delivers programs that help to provide safer food for Canadians while encouraging environmental stewardship among Canada's producers. These programs improve growers' access to newer, safer pesticides, and to production approaches that reduce reliance on pesticides.

Eligibility Criteria

The Pest Management Centre (PMC) provides project funding through the Pesticide Risk Reduction Program and Minor Use Research Fund to support the development and implementation of reduced risk pest control technologies and practices in order to support growers' efforts to produce crops in more environmentally sustainable ways.

Funding for implementation projects can be accessed in two ways: through the annual call for proposals held in the fall of each year, and as short term project funding available throughout the year.

Summary

Programs delivered by the Pest Management Centre are:

• the Minor Use Program, which improves access to minor-use pesticides
• the Pesticide Risk Reduction Program, focusing on priorities for pest management, including biological controls and integrated pest management; and
• the Minor Use Research Program which conducts research and other activities to support the introduction of reduced risk minor use pesticides.

The Minor Use Pesticide Program:

The Minor Use Pesticide Program will provide benefits to Canadian producers, the environment, and consumers by focussing on:

• making minor use pesticide products, with emphasis on reduced-risk products, more readily available; and
• providing Canadian producers with access to new pest-management technologies to improve their competitiveness domestically and internationally.

The Pesticide Risk Reduction Program:

The Pesticide Risk Reduction Program focuses on developing and implementing reduced risk solutions for pest management issues that have been identified as priorities by growers. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) are working together with industry and the provinces to increase the availability and adoption of reduced risk tools and practices to control pests in agriculture.

The Minor Use Research Program:

This program funds projects involving minor use pest control products or application technologies which pose a reduced risk to health and the environment. Projects include those investigating impacts of minor use pesticides on non-target organisms, projects to develop novel reduced risk technologies, as well as screening trials to identify potential reduced risk solutions for high priority pest control problems.

Manitoba Contact(s):
See National Contact.

National Contact(s):
Mr. Randy Fletcher
Programs Officer
Pest Management Centre
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Building 57
960 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario  K1A 0C6
Telephone: (613) 694-2457
E-mail: fletcherr@agr.gc.ca
Web site: http://www.agr.gc.ca/index_e.phtml