Farmers From Across Region Gather To Protest Move Of Bc Tree Fruit Packing Plant To Oliver Kelowna News
UPDATE: 6:30 p.m Despite BC Tree Fruits taking its meeting online, a large crowd of growers gathered at the Ramada Hotel Thursday night. Growers and farmers tell Castanet they felt the need to stick together after BC Tree Fruits announced it was closing its Kelowna/Lake Country packinghouse and moving operations to Oliver. “They only gave us five weeks,” said Gurjit Pabla, a farmer from Vernon. “The growers were never asked....