The demand for sustainable and locally grown leafy greens drives the launch of automated greenhouse operations in Canada. | PR Newswire [Video]

Sustainability, reliability, and local production are key motivators for recent investments in the greenhouse-grown leafy greens production in Canada. Efficient and automated operations are launching in several locations and are bound to reshape the Canadian lettuce industry.

, /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — The CEA production in Canada has been on a steady rise over the last decades, having turned parts of Ontario into a “CEA powerhouse” within North America, easily outpacing US production not just per capita but even in absolute terms. Tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers have long represented the bulk of Greenhouse-grown produce, with berries added to the mix in recent years*. The CEA production of leafy greens, on the other hand, has been lagging in Canada, with most large-scale lettuce greenhouse investments in recent years having been made in the USA. Now, this segment is finally bustling with activity in Canadaas well. With several new operations being announced and/or starting up, the greenhouse-grown leafy …