Agricultural Environment

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From a sustainable development perspective, ensuring a balance between agricultural development, its social acceptability and environmental protection for the benefit of future generations is an excellent means of conserving resources, water and soil. Accordingly, the commitments made in the Québec Water Policy, notably through the Regulation respecting agricultural operations, aim to strike a better balance between fertilizer applications and plant requirements in order to reduce pollution from fertilizer residues in the environment. This approach is centered around more rigorous on-farm phosphorus management.

Information in this section concerns agricultural activities that require a ministerial authorization certificate or submission of a project notice under the Environmental Quality Act. The public registry of existing environmental authorizations and project notices that have been submitted to the Ministère with respect to animal husbandry can also be found here. Finally, documents describing the impact of agricultural activity on the environment are posted here and available for consultation.