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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]
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[6] [33] The species Prunus fenzliana may be the most likely wild ancestor of the almond, in part because it is native to Armenia and western Azerbaijan, where it was apparently domesticated. [6] [28] Wild almond species were grown by early farmers, "at first unintentionally in the garbage heaps, and later intentionally in their orchards". [34]
In 2020, almonds were valued at $644 million, and that was a 54.35% increase from the prior year. Despite being the county's top commodity, almonds were not the most-exported crop.
The California almond community (where 80% of the world’s almonds grow) has committed to reducing the amount of water needed to grow almonds by an additional 20 percent by 2025. It’s also ...
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Afghan almond with stalk. Almond is a fruit crop classified under two types, Amygdalus communis (sweet almonds) and Amygdalus amara (bitter almonds). Under this broad classification, in Afghanistan the almond varieties grown are under two major classes: soft-shell almonds, known locally as badam-e kaghaz (literally, "paper almond"), which can be easily broken by hand; and hard/medium-shell ...
As almond growers use increasingly scarce and expensive water to irrigate this year's crop, over a billion pounds of nuts remain stranded in port.