crops

Pistachios are currently California’s “sixth-biggest agricultural commodity in value” compared to other longtime crops grown in the state, like strawberries and tomatoes, per agriculture statistics.

The conundrum is if they move away from growing coffee, they will turn to alternative crops or land uses.

And, as the climate changes, there are plenty of crops beyond illicit ones that coffee farmers could switch to that don’t require slashing more forest.

And that, they claim, will lead to new, more productive, disease-resistant crops and animals.

GM crops were publicly trampled by protestors who saw this as a technology that they didn’t need, want or consider safe.