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California is the largest grower of peaches in the United States, producing about 70% of the total. [1]Mountain Fruit Co.'s shipment for eastern markets, Placer County, 1922 San Fernando Valley harvest, 1890 George Clings, Carleton E. Watkins, 1889, now in the MoMA Grocery store in Fortuna, 2014 San Francisco Farmers' Market, 2014 Redlands Redlands Fortuna Farmers' Market, 2016 Yokuts, Tule ...
According to the most recent U.S. Department of Agriculture Data, South Carolina produced about 11% of the country’s peaches, followed by Georgia peaches, which made up nearly 4%.
Peach Forest by Lan Ying (1585-1664), late Ming Dynasty. China, the world's leading producer of fruit, is also by far the leading producer of peaches.. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, as of 2010, peach production in China was 10 million tonnes (11 million short tons), accounting for 50% of world production.
By 1580, peaches were being grown in Latin America and were cultivated by the remnants of the Inca Empire in Argentina. [29] In the United States the peach was soon adopted as a crop by American Indians. The peach also became naturalized and abundant as a wild species in the eastern U.S.. Peaches were being grown in Virginia as early as 1629.
South Carolina's peach season is here, and it figures to be a good one.
Rank Country/Region Fruit production (tonnes) 1 People's Republic of China 242,793,824 2 India 105,971,127 3 Brazil 39,758,842 4 Turkey 24,153,128 5 Mexico 23,837,562
Annually, the state produces 132 million pounds of peaches. Overall, peaches are an $80 million industry in S.C., according to the South Carolina Peach Council.
The Peach State lost more than 90% of this year’s crop after a February heat wave followed by two late-spring cold snaps. The triple-whammy inflated prices of the fruit. It also moved much of ...