California's Central Valley CNN — Take a summertime drive on Interstate 5 through the heart of the Golden State and it is nearly impossible to miss the truckloads of tomatoes being hauled straight from harvest to production. “Ninety-five percent of the processed tomato products consumed in the United States come right here from California’s Central Valley,” said Mike Montna, president …
Tomato growers in Chittoor and Annamayya districts have shunned the proposal of the officials of the Department of Marketing to procure the stocks at ₹50 to ₹55 a kg, as their produce continues to command ₹70 a kg in the wholesale at Madanapalle tomato market, while the retail price at almost all the vegetable markets across the region continued at …