Why does so much of our produce come from Mexico? In Southern California, all Roma tomatoes come from Mexico, as do most other varieties. Yet California has an excellent climate for growing tomatoes.
I love my good health, so I try to avoid buying produce from Mexico and try to get my tomatoes at farmers’ markets.
“Yet California has an excellent climate for growing tomatoes.”
Yes it does, and they do grow them. Just not that much in southern California. You’re just looking ion the wrong place.
13 million tones of tomatoes are grown in the central valley every year; it is a business worth about $1.5 billion annually! California produces between 90-95% of the processing tomatoes used in the United States and 1/3 of the world’s processed tomato products. During the summer a steady stream of trucks transport tomatoes north on Interstate ‘5’, from areas like Yolo county, to plants close to Modesto, Lodi, Stockton and Sacramento in Northern California. Every day ½ million tons of tomatoes are processed in these northern Central Valley’s plants, producing goods such as canned tomatoes, pizza sauce, ketchup and salsa. And there is an abundance of tomatoes in the supermarkets for your eating pleasure.
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“Yet California has an excellent climate for growing tomatoes.”
Yes it does, and they do grow them. Just not that much in southern California. You’re just looking ion the wrong place.
13 million tones of tomatoes are grown in the central valley every year; it is a business worth about $1.5 billion annually! California produces between 90-95% of the processing tomatoes used in the United States and 1/3 of the world’s processed tomato products. During the summer a steady stream of trucks transport tomatoes north on Interstate ‘5’, from areas like Yolo county, to plants close to Modesto, Lodi, Stockton and Sacramento in Northern California. Every day ½ million tons of tomatoes are processed in these northern Central Valley’s plants, producing goods such as canned tomatoes, pizza sauce, ketchup and salsa. And there is an abundance of tomatoes in the supermarkets for your eating pleasure.
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