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Not that unusual. Almost all vanilla is grown in northern madigascar, etc.
by cm2012 8y ago
Not that unusual. Almost all vanilla is grown in northern madigascar, etc.
- mc32 8y agoBut how many crops are like Vanilla --that is constrained to a limited geography-- but in the case of vanilla, also constrained by the intensive labor required. I mean, maybe Saffron? I think that there are exceptions such as these is proof that they are unusual.
- cm2012 8y agoTons! Even mushrooms are mostly grown in one county in the US https://modernfarmer.com/2014/05/welcome-mushroom-country-population-nearly-half-u-s-mushrooms/ https://modernfarmer.com/2014/05/welcome-mushroom-country-po...
- mc32 8y agoInteresting, yet I don't think they are hemmed in by geography but rather by happenstance. That's to say, the industry sprouted there and has had a positive feedback loop and bloomed, but it doesn't seem to me that it could not happen in Oregon, or some other place --though of course not every place in the US but several regions anyhow. I mean the GP was talking about crops which appeared to be restricted to small geographies due to special circumstances and could not be easily replicated elsewhere.