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Agriculture is a significant sector in California's economy, producing nearly US$50 billion in revenue in 2018. There are more than 400 commodity crops grown across California, including a significant portion of all fruits, vegetables, and nuts in the United States. [1]
Growing California Native Plants, Marjorie Schmidt, UC Press; Native Landscaping From El Paso to L.A., Sally Wasowski and Andy Wasowski, McGraw-Hill; Native Plants for California Gardens, Lee W. Lenz, Day Printing Corp. Native Treasures: Gardening with the Plants of California, M. Nevin Smith, UC Press
When complete, the list below will include all food plants native to the Americas (genera marked with a dagger † are endemic), regardless of when or where they were first used as a food source. For a list of food plants and other crops which were only introduced to Old World cultures as a result of the Columbian Exchange touched off by the ...
At the turn of the 21st century, California growers were farming more than 36,000 acres of asparagus. Now, fewer than 3,000 acres are in production in the state for commercial sale. These are the ...
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Dollar value annually is $1,240 million in Kern, $682 in Tulare, $416 in Fresno, and in the top ten crops in Riverside and Madera. [6] California's own consumption of table production grew from 1980 to 2001 from 1.8 to 3.5 kilograms (4.0 to 7.7 lb) per capita per year. [7]
Strawberries remained Santa Barbara County’s top grossing crop in 2021, with the overall value of agricultural production in the county climbing to $1.9 billion, a 5.1% increase from the ...
[48] [5] More than 230 crops are grown there. [5] On less than 1 percent of the total farmland in the United States, the Central Valley produces 8 percent of the nation's agricultural output by value: US$43.5 billion in 2013. [49] California's farms and ranches earned almost $50 billion in 2018. [50]