The price of limes was three times higher than normal at the start of 2022. Droughts, freezes, and floods threatened the health of the fruit. We head to Veracruz, Mexico, to see how one farm is harvesting and processing millions of limes in the face of growing instability.
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Interesting but you ruined it by saying climate change affects this. That's not a technical term. Do you mean heat? Don't exchange buzzwords for real information. It ruins your credibility.
This fusion thing is kinda weird and nasty but cool at the same time
Haven’t had a quality Lime since I left Cali 😢
IS THIS A JOJO'S REFERENCE?!?!?
That's not good thing to grow lime on orange
5:43 that’s right. The worst fruits are sold in the Mexican Market, the best are sold outside Mexico. Is sad, but that’s how Mexico stands out from other competitors.
The worst part is when
Mexican fruits are exported and sold back in Mexico with higher prices.
Great story
How many of these videos are going to come down to "climate change is destroying local climate systems and so we can get product anymore" before you talk about that lol
Americans love to add middle eastern music under anything that is not american.
There's a situation which is not mentioned about growing limes. Certain areas are affected by this over-production for export only. The land started to change its own nutrients; droughts are more common these days in those areas because the need from the plant to grow. There's not enough water for closer town of this companies. one of the biggest examples is Michoacán. Also, this plantation industry keeps occupying a lot of spaces of closer woods, cutting down the trees to no disturb the growing from them. And no to mention the corruption problem this companies bring to the government and the permisions to expand their lands.
It's all conspiracy that with the man made disease covid, the weather magically caused plagues for the crops and livestock as well. Trust no one, question everything.
Is this reupload?
They stopped the migration.
They want lime to be exported.
They need some counselling.
Gaslighting oranges to convert to limes, is what I hear lol
Would've been nice if you included horticulture term's like, bud graft, rootstock and scions. Instead of "tricking an orange into being a lime".
Lemon and lime farming were not lucrative in my country, Kenya, but during Corona, the demand was high because of their medicinal properties. Anyway, it's still not a great business and we envy your export opportunities.
the worker coming from states. what?
What you missed about cultivating the plants is that limes are hybridized and growing them from seed will not yield the expected results. They are grafted to a hardy relative rootstock mainly to ensure the intended fruit is produced.
I have a Persian lime here in the northeast USA in a pot it grew fruit a couple years ago.
yellow coloured lime inside? interesting