Two individuals could be growing marijuana for personal use — one with 6 plants, the other with 30 plants — and the 30 would be legal because the person has a ministerial licence.

Increased production due to crop protection products and plant biotechnology generates $7.9 billion worth of additional economic activity annually for farmers of field, vegetable, and fruit crops in Canada.

Increased crop production due to plant science technology generates $7.9 billion in value for farmers of field, fruit, and vegetable crops, and creates $385 million in tax revenue for federal, provincial, and municipal governments.

There are 325,000 farms in Canada producing field crops; 82,000 farms have their primary source of income in grain production, as opposed to other commodities.

(s)‘non-food cellulosic material’ means feedstocks mainly composed of cellulose and hemicellulose, and having a lower lignin content than ligno-cellulosic material; it includes food and feed crop residues (such as straw, stover, husks and shells), grassy energy crops with a low starch content (such as ryegrass, switchgrass, miscanthus, giant cane and cover crops before and after main crops), industrial residues (including from food and feed crops after vegetal oils, sugars, starches and protein have been extracted), and material from biowaste.

Nitrogen is a vital nutrient that helps plants and crops to grow.