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Vegetable Situation

May, 1971 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Vegetable Situation: May, 1971 The vegetable industry has responded to the shift to convenience foods by increasing the tonnage of vegetables used for processing from million tons (1957-59 average) to million tons (1967-69 average). Cucumber imports were almost negligible in the 1950's but had risen to more than million hundredweight by 1970. More than million hundredweight of onions and peppers from Mexico entered the United States in 1970. Competition to the American vegetable industry from abroad in coming years will continue to be closely related to domestic labor costs and other labor problems. The replacement of men by machines, where feasible, as has been accomplished in much of the processing vegetable industry, will tend to ease some of the pressure on domestic producers. But in the absence of restrictions, imports are likely to increase further, because labor and other costs in the domestic vegetable industry are likely to rise fairly rapidly. In the processed vegetable sector, significant competition from imports has been limited largely to tomato products from Mediterranean countries, and canned mushrooms from Taiwan. Exports of fresh vegetables, mostly to Canada, have taken about 3 percent of domestic production in recent years - a figure not likely to change greatly in the l97o's. Most of this increase has come in the Pacific Coast States, and a little more than half the processed vegetable production now originates in the West. Some additional tomato, sweet corn, and pickle tonnage has come from the North Central area but not enough to maintain this region's share of total output. In contrast to fresh market vegetables, Southern regions contribute only a small share of total processing crops. The declining share of the North Atlantic States is attributed largely to interregional competition with the West where yields are higher and per ton production costs are lower for many important crops. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Release date NZ
December 1st, 2018
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
36 Illustrations; Illustrations, black and white
Imprint
Forgotten Books
Pages
40
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Dimensions
152x229x2
ISBN-13
9781334548826
Product ID
26544025

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