Excerpt from Marketing Fruits and Vegetables: Reprinted From Agricultural Markets in Change, Agricultural Economic Report 95; Ers-320 These statistics give some indication of the magnitude of the fruit and vegetable industry and the changes it has experienced in the 37-year period 1929 to 1965. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Section I: The U.S. vegetable market -The U.S. supply of vegetables; The U.S. demand for vegetables. Section II: Policies and institution - The produce industry in transition: Focus on marketing; The role of public policies in u.s. vegetable production and marketing; Policies and institutions in vegetable marketing in the western hemisphere: the mexican experience. Section III: Trade linkages in the Western Hemisphere - From competition to coordination in vegetable trade: The case of Mexico and California; An empirical analysis of world vegetable trade; A conceptual analysis of vegetable trade; Trade of horticultural products: a caribbean basin perspective. Section IV: Issues in vegetables trade - The Uruguay round of trade negotiations: implications for trade in horticultural products; Vegetable trade and the caribbean basin initiative; Labor and international trade in vegetables.