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The almond is a deciduous tree growing to 3–4.5 metres (10–15 feet) in height, [4] [8] with a trunk of up to 30 centimetres (12 inches) in diameter. The young twigs are green at first, becoming purplish where exposed to sunlight, then grey in their second year.
As of 2015, almond cultivation consumed about 10% of the state's water. [12] Furthermore, almond acreage increased by 14% from 2007 to 2014, while almond irrigation increased by 27%. [13] Critics have pointed out that the state's 6,000 almond farmers use roughly 35 times the amount of water as the 466,000 residents of Sacramento. [14]
T. catappa is widely grown in tropical regions of the world as an ornamental tree, grown for the deep shade its large leaves provide. The fruit is edible, [10] tasting slightly acidic. When ripe, the seeds are edible raw or cooked [11] and are the source of its 'almond' common names, but are small and difficult to extract.
California produces about 80% of the world’s supply of almonds. And according to federal data, the state’s harvested almond orchards skyrocketed from 760,000 acres in 2011 to more than 1.3 ...
Pistachio farmers learn from almond farming struggles Pistachios are poised to weather California's dry spells better than its even bigger nut crop, almonds, which generated nearly $4 billion in ...
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