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Christmas tree production in Canada totals from 3 to 6 million trees annually.〔〔 Trees are produced in many of the provinces of Canada but the nation's leading producers are found in Quebec, Nova Scotia and Ontario, which account for 80 percent of Canadian tree production. Of the 900,000 trees produced annually in British Columbia, most are cut from native pine stands. ==Production history== The production of natural Christmas trees in Canada developed similarly to that of the United States. Into the 1930s nearly all Canadian Christmas trees were harvested from native stands within local forests. Demand for Christmas trees continued to rise and the interest in Christmas tree cultivation increased with it.〔"(Canada's Private Forests )," The State of Canada's Forests: 1997–1998, ''Canada Forest Service'', 1998, p. 40-51, accessed September 23, 2012.〕 Around 40 million Christmas trees are cut every year in North America, of that number between 3 and 6 million are cut from Canadian Christmas tree farms and native pine and fir stands annually.〔〔Anonymous. "(Christmas tree safety )", ''CBC News'', 4 December 2006. Retrieved 3 September 2007.〕 The nation's top three producers of Christmas trees, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Ontario, account for around 80 percent of all Canadian Christmas tree production.〔 About half of the total harvest is exported each year, mostly to the United States but also to the Caribbean and Central America. Between 1995 and 1997 Canadian Christmas tree exports to Germany increased 380 percent.〔"(Canada's Private Forests )", The State of Canada's Forests: 1997–1998, ''Canada Forest Service'', 1998. Retrieved 7 September 2007.〕 In 1995, there were about of land, divided over 4,077 farms, in production with Christmas trees in Canada.〔 Five provinces vied for the title of Canada's top Christmas tree producer, three of which were close to each other in terms of percentage of the total national acreage devoted to the crop. The leading provinces in 1995 were Quebec, Nova Scotia, Ontario, British Columbia and New Brunswick.〔 Quebec, Nova Scotia and Ontario all accounted for 22–24 percent of the total national acreage used by Christmas tree production, and together the five leading provinces accounted for 95 percent of all land in production with the crop nationwide.〔 The 1995 total crop numbered 3.2 million trees cut, Quebec provided 32.5 percent of the total trees harvested.〔"(The 2001 Census and Canada's Christmas tree growers )", 2001 Census of Agriculture, ''Statistics Canada'', 12 March 2002. Retrieved 6 September 2007.〕 Nearly a decade later, in 2004, Canadian Christmas tree production was at 3.9 million trees cut, a 0.3 percent decrease over the preceding 10 years.〔 The 2004 crop was worth around $62 million, 36.2 million of which came from the 2.5 million trees Canadians exported.〔 The 2004 Christmas tree harvest represented a 3.3 percent decrease when compared to 2003.〔"(Non-timber forest products ), The State of Canada's Forests: 2005-2006, ''Canadian Forest Service'', 2006. Retrieved 6 September 2007.〕 Overall, between 2000 and 2010 Canadian tree farmers saw revenue decline 12 percent.〔"(Christmas Tree Sales Slow )", ''CBC News'', December 9, 2010, accessed September 23, 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christmas tree production in Canada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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