The Canada and Manitoba governments have invested more than 880 thousand dollars in environmentally focused projects to improve and protect Manitoba’s landscape in partnership with conservation districts and farmers, both federal and provincial agriculture ministers announced today. .
A total of 23 projects will receive funding from Growing Forward 2’s Growing Assurance – Ecological Goods and Services to build water retention structures, protect sensitive lands with perennial cover and establish grassed waterway buffers. Funding is provided to Manitoba’s conservation districts, which then work with local agricultural producers to complete the projects.
Manitoba Agriculture estimates every dollar spent on environmental projects creates a 3 dollars economic spinoff through material purchases, use of local contractors, skilled labour and tax revenues.
Eichler noted the provincial government’s public consultations on watershed-based environmental programs, drainage, water resource management and the modernization of Manitoba’s conservation districts are ongoing.
