Because it is labor - intensive, it is used primarily to produce high -
value vegetable crops or in orchards.
Not exact matches
High -
value crops such as
vegetables, citrus fruits, grapes and apricots can by grown in the Middle East if 5,000 to 8,000 cubic meters of water (about 1.7 million gallons) per hectare (2.47 acres) are provided each year.
The
value of field
crops,
vegetable and milk and diary products increases each year, reaching $ 89 million dollars in 1997.
Fresh market
vegetable grower profit is based on reaching markets early, when the
crop's
value is greatest.
This enables more frequent harvests of high -
value crops like
vegetables rather than grains.
The company produces salt (primarily used by cities for deicing roads but has many consumer and industrial uses as well), specialty potash (a premium fertilizer that improves the quality, yield, and shelf life of high -
value fruit,
vegetable, and tree nut
crops), micronutrients (essential minerals that maximize plant yields), and magnesium chloride (used in numerous ways including roadway deicing, dust control, and as plant nutrients for wheat
crops).