Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to give a bird's eye view of what is taking place in the mechanization of the fruit forms in California. California today produces about 10 per cent of the farm wealth of the United States. In 1961 some 25 major fruit and nut crops, planted on 1.2 million acres, produced over 6.7 million tons of produce worth 580 million dollars. California is a leader in fruit production and it is natural, then, that the California fruit growers should have many problems. Over-production; high taxes; high transportation costs; rising costs of materials, supplies and maintenance; increasing cost of labor, and protectionism for foreign imports has placed the fruit farmer of today in the greatest cost-price squeeze since the last depression.
Keywords:
horticulture machinery, horticulture enterprises, fruit crops, nut crops
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