Local fruit growers need to act fast in order to cash in on the province's unproductive and uneconomic vines and trees assistance program. The province's Orchard and Vinyard Transition Program is offering up over $16 hundred per acre, on a first come-first served basis, to grape and tender fruit producers to help them with orchard and vineyard stock removal and disposal costs. Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Carol Mitchell, says the government recognizes that grape, apple and tender fruit growers had a particularly challenging year. Applications for the funding are due March 31, 2010 with the removals needing to be complete by the end of November.