Word: seedless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wednesday to beg Secretary of State James Baker to reconsider the ban. In Chile hundreds of workers demonstrated. Trucks loaded with free fruit wound through the streets. Autos sprouted signs bearing the message MY FAMILY EATS CHILEAN FRUIT. President Augusto Pinochet, in full military uniform, popped a few seedless white grapes into his mouth for television cameras...
Things are little better in California, which produces nearly half of America's fruits and vegetables. The Golden State's farm exports dropped 28% from 1981 to 1983, to $3 billion. Bob and Kathleen Hamada, who grow plums and seedless grapes for raisins on 100 acres in Kingsburg in the San Joaquin Valley, are typical of hard-pressed California farmers who have decided to call it quits. The Hamadas have been trying to sell their farm since mid-1983 but so far have attracted only nibbles. Kathleen, 23, has taken a part-time job as a cashier in a movie...
...sales, which had grown by an average 6% annually during the 1970s, suddenly flattened in 1982 at about 360 million gal., and have grown only marginally since then. Growers who planted their vines in anticipation of blossoming demand are finding a market that has shriveled like a raisin. Thompson seedless grapes, a basic variety that fetched $200 per ton in 1981, now sell for as low as $50. For many farmers, such prices are far below the cost of growing the grapes...
...farm, Maass says he hopes to develop "a new type of irrigation." He wants to bring exotic crops, such as Italian seedless to intoes, into the Mojave Desert or somewhere similar, and is "fairly far along in working out the project." He says the prospect of living out of a trailer in the desert doesn't faze him since he does not plan to live there full-time...
...preferred crop today is sinsemilla (a seedless marijuana produced through intensive cultivation of only the female plant) that has a very high concentration of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, marijuana's psychoactive ingredient. Sinsemilla produces a heady euphoria and sells for around $2,000 per lb. This is roughly the yield from a single plant. The sinsemilla produced by U.S. growers is so prized that seeds have been smuggled into Mexico and Colombia to enrich crops there...