NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Hachey, Gene O.E.
Licensed Year(s): 1989
Summary: Mr. Gene Hachey and the NWT Farmers Association will be conducting research to enhance the knowledge base concerning horticultural production methods. Farmers from Fort Smith, Fort Simpson and Hay River will make sites available on their holdings to allow for evaluation of vegetable and berry varieties, production methods and associated testing....

Principal Investigator: Hachey, Gene O.E.
Licensed Year(s): 1989
Summary: Mr. Gene Hachey and his team will be examining a new method for producing horticultural crops on a year round basis in areas North of 60. The project will build a prototype light collection and transmission device and will evaluate the potential for irradiating horticultural crops grown in an opaque, insulated structure such as a green house....

Principal Investigator: Revel, Richard, D.
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: A study to document varieties of seeds used in vegetable gardening and methods used in order to promote northern gardening....

Principal Investigator: Svoboda, Josef
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: 1) To study productivity of high arctic meadows; 2) to experiment with the efficiency of dome-shaped greenhouses for growing vegetables; 3) to study plant communities and prepare a vegetation map of the Sverdrup Pass....

Principal Investigator: Cummins, W.R.
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: To undertake a study to determine the acceptability of locally grown tundra plants and southern vegetables as part of the local residents' diet. Samples of seeds, plants, peat moss, beach sand and lake bottom sediments will be collected for future analysis and comparison with southern counterparts....

Principal Investigator: Eley, F.J.
Licensed Year(s): 1976
Summary: To conduct an agricultural climatic study....