The first farm in Saudi Arabia, expected to be the largest indoor vertical farm of its kind in the Middle East and North Africa region, will have an annual production capacity up to 2.4 million pounds of crops.
The Association of Agricultural Producers Guild of Peru reported in late January that road blockades by protesters have limited agricultural exports and hammered farmers.
A doubling of domestic production and a quadrupling of imports has helped the retail per capita availability of fresh tangerines/tangelos and mandarins rise 187% since 2000, USDA statistics show.
The USDA has purchased more than 450,000 cartons of mandarins and tangerines for the agency’s child nutrition and other related domestic food assistance programs.
Mexico dominates U.S. imports of many fruits and vegetables, USDA statistics show, with numerous fresh produce commodities showing double-digit gains in value over the last two years.
