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Millet
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Location: Colorado

Posted: Sun 06 Sep, 2009 12:33 pm

A billion citrus trees are currently being cultivated on the planet, approximately one tree for every six inhabitants. (Millet 1,228-)
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Millet
Citruholic
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Location: Colorado

Posted: Mon 07 Sep, 2009 12:46 am

The world production of citrus fruits is close to 100 million tons. Of this total, the global trade of FRESH fruit is about 10 million tons.
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Millet
Citruholic
Citruholic


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Location: Colorado

Posted: Sun 13 Sep, 2009 4:35 pm

In Florida, the maturity and grade standards for citrus is very rigidly enforced by both the Florida Department of Citrus and the Florida state statutes. Therefore, the internal quality of Florida citrus is higher than for most other areas, while appearance is generally lower because of pale color, wind scar, mite damage, and so on. However, Florida shippers usually try to select only crops grown with optimum external and good internal quality. - Millet (1,221-)
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Malcolm_Manners
Citrus Guru
Citrus Guru


Joined: 13 Nov 2005
Posts: 676
Location: Lakeland Florida

Posted: Sun 13 Sep, 2009 10:41 pm

Another "fun fact" about Florida citrus -- because so large a percentage of our crop goes to juice production, the general public tends not to understand the size scale of our industry. But in a "normal" year (pre canker and greening, no hurricane, hard freeze, etc.), it is common for my county alone (Polk County) to produce more tons of citrus than all of California, Arizona, Texas, and Louisiana combined.
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