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US CA: As Prices Fall, Farmers Turn to
Illegal Cash Crops
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Webpage: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-farm12may12,1,1817675.story
Pubdate: Wed, 12 May 2004
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
Copyright: 2004 Los Angeles Times
Contact: letters@latimes.com
Website: http://www.latimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/248
Author: Mark Arax, Times Staff Writer
AS PRICES FALL, FARMERS TURN TO
ILLEGAL CASH CROPS
FRESNO -- On the edge of suburbia here, where farmland
awaits the developer's plow, the magnificent gardens of
Southeast Asian refugees rise and fall.
On leased ground no bigger than 5 or 10 acres -- small
potatoes to the giant industrial growers -- the refugees
plant their own longshot dreams: Chinese bitter melon,
Chinese broccoli, Thai chili, ong choy, su choy, daikon
and kohlrabi.
The best strawberries in the San Joaquin Valley are
grown by a tribe of CIA-trained commandos who fled the
highlands of Laos after the Vietnam War. Thai
eggplant, slightly spicier than its Armenian cousin, is
the specialty of the lowland Lao.
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