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"Michel Boucher" > wrote in message
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> wrote in
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>>> > I love almonds. I am not sure why anyone would demonise
>>> > them?
>>>
>>> When it takes 20 gallons of water to grow one and you are in
>>> the middle (or beginning) of an epic droiught it makes for an
>>> easy target.
>>
>> It takes one gallon of water to grow an almond, but 3.3
>> gallons of water to grow a tomato. Almonds sell at a premium
>> compared to tomatoes.
>
> That is cracker economics at its most risible. You cannot grow a
> single almond, you have to grow a tree which will produce many
> almonds (I would imagine close to 100 almonds per tree if my
> experience in Andalucia is similar), each if them requiring a
> "gallon" (or more accurately 4 litres) of water. You can however
> grow a few tomatoes instead of a hundred.

WAY more than 100 almonds per tree.