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Loading Potatoes for Export
1990
Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada

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Prince Edward Island was the first province to produce seed potatoes and shipped its first load of seed potatoes in 1918. Today, more than half of Canadas seed potatoes come from P.E.I. and they are shipped to more than twenty countires.Regulations governing testing, production, inspection and sale of seed potatoes form part of Canada's Seeds Act which covers the growing of all certified seed crops. These regulations are enforced by inspectors of the Plant Quarantine Division, Food Production, and Inspection Branch, and Canada Department of Agriculture.