Vietnam
Vietnam is the world’s largest producer of Robusta coffee and the largest exporter of black pepper. Both crops are concentrated in the red basalt soils of the Central Highlands, in provinces like Dak Lak, Lam Dong, and Gia Lai. These are intensive, high-yield,...
Chile
Chile sells fruit to the world when the rest of it is in winter. Table grapes and cherries grown in the Central Valley ship north to the United States, Europe, and Asia during the Southern Hemisphere summer, arriving at a time when northern buyers have nothing local....
jordan
The Jordan Valley is the country’s farming heartland. Sitting below sea level with a warm winter climate, it produces tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, citrus, bananas, stone fruit, and grapes, much of it early in the season when prices are high and Gulf and...
Algeria
Potato is one of Algeria’s most important food crops, grown across the northern plains of Mostaganem, Ain Defla, and Bouira, and in the sandy soils of El Oued for the off-season harvest. It feeds the country and supports thousands of commercial growers. Getting...
iraq
Iraqi farmers grow good crops on hard ground. The Mesopotamian plain between the Tigris and Euphrates was one of the first farmed landscapes on earth, and it still produces dates, wheat, barley, and vegetables today. But much of that land now carries a heavy load of...
