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How Mexico Grows Limes On Orange Trees To Supply The US | Big Business | Business Insider
How Mexico Grows Limes On Orange Trees To Supply The US | Big Business | Business Insider
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nearly every lime Americans eat comes
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from Mexico
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but lime prices Spike to almost four
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dollars in early 2022.
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and stores had trouble keeping their
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shelves stocked
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droughts extreme heat and disease have
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hit Farms across Mexico is
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farmers in the state of Veracruz are
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holding on this producer has done it by
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growing their limes on orange trees we
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visited one Farm to see how workers grow
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pick and process millions of limes in
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the face of an increasingly
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unpredictable environment
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about 45 lime producers are spread
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across Martinez De la Torre Veracruz
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they grow Persian limes the seedless
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kind of
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Persian limes love the wet climate here
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but in recent years the area has faced
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increasingly extreme weather
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so how then do they grow strong enough
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lime trees even without seeds well
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believe it or not they start with orange
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seeds
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they take a mature orange stock and a
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Bud from a lime plant and use a grafting
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technique to combine them
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ES
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while it grows workers cut away any
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leaves that aren't lime basically
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convincing this orange plant that it's a
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lime one
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orange rootstocks like this are heartier
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so when it's mature the fusion lime
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plant will better stand up to diseases
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and climate change
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after about a year
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is
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but the hard work doesn't stop there
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is
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in 2014 lime Farms across Mexico saw a
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huge drop in production because of a
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plant-killing disease called hlb or
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citrus greenate
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insects transmit a type of bacteria that
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starves the Trees of nutrients causing
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it to produce less fruit so how did they
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keep producing millions of limes with
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these insects on the loose while teams
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here discovered they could control hlb
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and a disease called wood pocket using
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mesh netting and insecticide
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applications
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it takes about four years for the tree
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to bear fruit one tree can produce about
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150 pounds of limes per year
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this picker has been harvesting here for
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two years
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like him most everyone working on the
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farm is from the state
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but in the last five years limes haven't
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always looked like this
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but a cruise Farmers have faced a
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growing number of floods freezes and
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high winds
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Del clima in very dry conditions the
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lime skin is too smooth and may turn
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yellow if conditions are too wet the
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tree will drown causing the fruits peel
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to split when it's really windy branches
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hit the fruit
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is
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this extreme weather was part of what
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caused a lime shortage that began in
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2021 driving prices up 300 percent by
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January 2022 is
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still Veracruz has been spared the worst
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of the shifting weather patterns
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Farmers here hope that grafting will be
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their tree's Lifeline if that time does
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come in the fields workers tug off ripe
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limes and drop them into these
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traditional ayate bags woven from Agave
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leaves
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workers can Harvest about 2 000 limes in
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a day they load them onto trucks headed
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to the packaging facility
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this machine dumps lines onto the
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processing line
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each one gets washed with a detergent
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disinfectant
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and hit with a spray of palm wax
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it's not just to make the limes look
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shiny is
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throughout their journey in the factory
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the lives will get sorted multiple times
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some stations do it by hand others with
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fancy Tech
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is
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using those pictures the machine
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separated them based on their size ones
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that aren't the right size will go
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directly to Mexico's juicing industry
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the perfectly sized ones will head on to
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get exported but first there's quality
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control is
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foreign
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test the limes are ready for packaging
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and shipping the majority of the limes
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produced in this region end up in the
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United States demand for limes has been
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increasing for decades as Latin American
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and Asian Cuisines became more popular
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but in 1994 after a new Free Trade
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Agreement went into effect the
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floodgates for Mexican limes opened now
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the U.S is the biggest importer of limes
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globally doubling the amount it
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purchased from Mexico in the last 10
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years
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to keep up with demand Mexico increased
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its production 50 in the same decade
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workers here say that demand is a
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double-edged sword on one hand element
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is
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but the downside extreme weather is
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making it hard to keep up
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foreign
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the farm can also lean on that grafting
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technique to help grow trees faster so
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they can keep up with booming U.S
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interest
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but while they wait for what might come
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they'll keep picking away hoping for
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steady weather and a strong Harvest
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Mexican
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foreign
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