Other specialty crop groups [besides garlic, discussed earlier in the article] are also struggling with foreign competition, in particular from China, which has geared its agriculture industry towards labor-intensive, higher-value fruits and vegetables. China has begun to dominate everything from apples to onions. Chinese exports have also eaten into American growers’ share of markets in Japan and Hong Kong for items like broccoli and lettuce.
Sunday, December 03, 2006
We are now losing out to China in food!
From the New York Times
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I see no problem with this, but I think our trade reps should insist that all Chinese food be imported by psychotic teenage boys on bicycles.
(This may be a New York comment. Does the rest of the country live in fear of Chinese food bicycle delivery guys?)
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