The provincial government is issuing hundreds of thousands of vouchers for farmers' markets as its Nova Scotia Loyal program continues to shift toward more of a promotional effort and away from the original plan of a rewards program.

Growth and Development Minister Colton LeBlanc was at a school in Dartmouth on Wednesday to announce that the $10 vouchers, which started last year with a handful of schools, would be going out this month to students at all public schools, non-profit Mi'kmaw Kina'ma…