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Mexican tomato imports have risen from a 20% share of the U.S. market in 1994, when the trade-liberalizing North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect, to about 70% today.
It yielded a harvest of more than 32,000 tomatoes, together weighing 522 kg (1,151 lb). [112] [113] The town of Buñol, Spain, annually celebrates La Tomatina, a festival centered on an enormous tomato fight. On 30 August 2007, as many as 40,000 Spaniards gathered to throw 115,000 kg (254,000 lb) of tomatoes at each other in the festival. [114]
The shortage caused several fast food chains to stop offering tomatoes unless requested [3] [4] and supermarkets rationed their supplies. [5] Prices for tomatoes in the Eastern United States reached prices several times the cost prior to the crop loss. [5] [6] Wholesale prices rose from around $7 for a 25 lb box to $30. [7]
The units by which the yield of a crop is usually measured today are kilograms per hectare or bushels per acre.. Long-term cereal yields in the United Kingdom were some 500 kg/ha in Medieval times, jumping to 2000 kg/ha in the Industrial Revolution, and jumping again to 8000 kg/ha in the Green Revolution. [1]
The Roma tomato or Roma is a plum tomato popularly used both for canning and producing tomato paste because of its slender and firm nature. Commonly found in supermarkets in some countries. [1] Roma tomatoes are grown in the United States, Mexico, Australia, and Great Britain. [2]
This is a list of countries by tomato production from 2016 to 2022, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. [1] The estimated total world production for tomatoes in 2022 was 186,107,972 metric tonnes , a decrease of 1.7% from 189,281,485 tonnes in 2021. [ 1 ]
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Acibenzolar-S-methyl (ASM) is a plant activator producing systemic acquired resistance (SAR). [4] In a very widely regarded experiment Louws et al., 2001 used ASM to protect fresh tomato cultivation here against Tomato Bacterial Spot and Tomato Bacterial Speck. [4]