The principle we have as a government is that we will use the money that we make from our non-renewable resources to try to make sure we put money into our more renewable resources, and we have certainly done a lot. To use forestry and agrifoods as an example, we are opening up more land. We have a lot of land in Newfoundland and Labrador. Very little of it has been prepared for agriculture, so we have programs. Working with the federal government through the Growing Forward program, we have funds available for farmers to open up more land. We've done work with the local agriculture industry, the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Agriculture, to attract younger people into agrifoods and into the agriculture industry. We are working with a lot of our research firms to find spin-off opportunities that would come from our oceans.
We've basically used the oceans for the last 500 years to extract resources, to take fish out of the water. We now have industries here in Newfoundland and Labrador that are helping us with things like using remotely operated vehicles, working in harsh Arctic conditions, North Sea conditions, using the wind and tides. We now refer to a blue economy, by which we mean the ocean. There are spin-off industries and the expertise we're developing here in Newfoundland and Labrador can be taken elsewhere. We're doing things with ice studies and icebergs that come down from the Arctic and pose hazards to ships and to offshore oil rigs.
So there's work like that we're doing. We're trying to diversify our industries, trying to build on our successes. Wind farms are a big thing. We have a lot of wind in Newfoundland and Labrador. We have a couple of pilot projects going. One is off our southern coast, where we're powering a whole community, a community called Ramea, with wind energy. It's a pilot project, and we'll look at those results over the next couple of years and see what other isolated rural communities we're able to provide electricity to by using wind power as opposed to diesel generation.