The people who sold their food products to USAID, are not people they are corporations like Cargill, Carnation, Prudential was in the 1980's the biggest farmer in the country. All grains, from rice to wheat and barley are grown by a handful of corporations, who receive subsidy from the government.
The people who sold their food products to USAID, are not people they are corporations like Cargill, Carnation, Prudential was in the 1980's the biggest farmer in the country. All grains, from rice to wheat and barley are grown by a handful of corporations, who receive subsidy from the government.
There are a few family farms, but they struggle with debt, the weather, locusts, drought and the market, which the corporate farmers brush off like sand fleas.
Migrant employees are used in poultry processing, meat processing, field hands picking asparagus, fruit, tomatoes. They harvesing of greens is now done by tractor.
Salinas California uses a lot of migrant worker, they grow artichokes and strawberries
The people who sold their food products to USAID, are not people they are corporations like Cargill, Carnation, Prudential was in the 1980's the biggest farmer in the country. All grains, from rice to wheat and barley are grown by a handful of corporations, who receive subsidy from the government.
There are a few family farms, but they struggle with debt, the weather, locusts, drought and the market, which the corporate farmers brush off like sand fleas.
Migrant employees are used in poultry processing, meat processing, field hands picking asparagus, fruit, tomatoes. They harvesing of greens is now done by tractor.
Salinas California uses a lot of migrant worker, they grow artichokes and strawberries