VANCOUVER --
A restoration bundle is predicted to be introduced at this time for British Columbia's agriculture trade after devastating floods final November.
The B.C. and federal agriculture ministers have been scheduled to make an announcement, billing it as the biggest restoration program for the sector within the province's historical past.
Document rains mixed with overflowing rivers in mid-November swamped farmland in a number of areas of southern B.C. and Vancouver Island.
Within the Sumas Prairie, a primary agricultural space in Abbotsford, water flooded barns, fields and houses.
1000's of animals have been killed, most of them chickens and hogs, whose house owners could not rescue them earlier than the water moved in.
The Insurance coverage Bureau of Canada has stated the storms have been the costliest extreme climate occasion in B.C.'s historical past with an insured worth lack of about $450 million, though that does not issue within the injury to a number of highways and different infrastructure, or the associated fee to those that have been uninsured.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Feb. 7, 2022.
Minister of Agriculture Lana Popham speaks throughout a press convention within the press gallery on the Legislature in Victoria, B.C., on Wednesday June 20, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
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