Agriculture committee  Good morning. My name is Nick Kiran. First of all, it's an honour to be here before your standing committee on agriculture. I'll just give you a brief history. We came to Canada in 1970 as kids and came straight to Kelowna's agricultural community. We enjoyed being on a farm, and we worked on the farm during all our school years.

Agriculture committee  Okay.

Agriculture committee  As a family-run orchard business, we have done everything humanly possible to make agriculture viable. My two other brothers have pulled out of agriculture and are following other professions due to the lack of monetary return. Following other concerns in our industry, it is no longer viable to stay in this industry due to poor grower returns and the high cost of production, especially in the past two or three years.