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Paul M. Cook

"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.

One almond tree produces thousands of almonds. And the thing is they must
be watered year round, you cannot let an almond orchard go fallow. They
must be watered when not producing.

> Cracker economics.

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