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  • From: "Teghtmeyer, Suzanne R" <srt175f@smsu.edu>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] RE: CBHL: Fruit of Mexico
  • Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:28:46 -0500

It’s funny what people consider ‘exotics’ these days. Mass transportation and overnight delivery have made exotics commonplace, at least here in the States. Did you know that there are at least 16 different varieties of kiwifruit, but most people only know about the one variety, ‘Hayward’ (in France they are called souris végétales, or 'vegetable mice'!

 Just today I was looking for information on the tayberry, an exotic-sounding black raspberry/loganberry cross that is quite popular in American fruit-grower circles, but rarely known to the rest of the population. Then there are dewberries, sunberries, thimbleberries.....

 

Sorry – my meandering exotic-fruit thread is now cut.  J

-----Suzi


From: Tracy Mehlin [mailto:tmehlin@u.washington.edu]
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 3:51 PM
To: Teghtmeyer, Suzanne R; cbhl@flounder.com
Subject: Re: CBHL: Fruit of Mexico

 

Thank you, Suzi, Allyson and Janet for your replies.  My patron will be happy, although I imagine he believes people in Mexico are eating exotic fruits, but it sounds like they eat many of the same ones we eat. 

-Tracy

 

----- Original Message -----

Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 12:36 PM

Subject: RE: CBHL: Fruit of Mexico

 

Hi Tracy,

Not a book, but from three/four websites I found the following info:

 

http://www.surf-mexico.com/states/Michoacan/Uruapan/uruapan.htm

Founded in 1553 by Fray Juan de San Miguel, Uruapan today is a tranquil city of about 250,000 inhabitants. Located some 120 kilometers from Michoacan's capital, Morelia, Uruapan is accessible from that city via a new highway that passes through Patzcuaro in the nearby mountains.

The region is well known for it's agriculture - particularly the production of the finest avocados in the country. There are also extensive orchards of oranges and grapefruit in the Nueva Italia area to the south along Highway 37, and travelers on that route can often come across citrus stands on the side of the highway where sackfuls of these fruits can be purchased at very reasonable cost.

 

http://www.internationalreports.net/special/mexico/010803/investment.html

Today, Michoacan is one of the most important international producers of avocados besides being between the first places of the production of mango, strawberry, lemon, banana, wheat and rice to name a few commodities. The main objective in agriculture is to create growth of these products by giving them added value by supporting businesses that process these products.

 

http://www.elbalero.gob.mx/kids/explora/html/michoacan/economia.html

MICHOACAN

- Economy -

Agricultural activities produce a wide variety of products in Michoacán. The state's production of avocado is currently the largest in Mexico. Michoacán occupies third place for its production of chickpea and lemon, and fourth place for its production of sesame and sorghum. Sugar cane, corn and wheat are also cultivated.

Did you know that almost all Mexico's strawberries are produced in Guanajuato and Michoacán?

 

You can also get into FAOSTAT, the on-line database of records covering international statistics, maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). [http://faostat.fao.org/faostat/collections?version=ext&hasbulk=0&subset=agriculture]

Selecting "Commodity Balances: Crops Primary Equivalent" will give production numbers for specific fruits for all of Mexico. The most recent year of data is 2001.

 

Hope this helps!

----Suzi Teghtmeyer

Paul Evans Library of Fruit Science

Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station and Mid-America Viticulture and Enology Center,

Southwest Missouri State University, Mountain Grove Campus

Evans Library Homepage: http://library.smsu.edu/paulevans/

AgNIC Viticulture site: http://library.smsu.edu/paulevans/viticulture1.shtml

Email: srt175f@smsu.edu

Member: CBHL, AgNIC, USAIN, IAALD, ALA, STC

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tracy Mehlin [mailto:tmehlin@u.washington.edu]
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 12:40 PM
To: cbhl@flounder.com
Subject: CBHL: Fruit of Mexico

 

We have a reference question that we were able to find a bit of information

on, but I think other CBHL libraries might have just the book:

What are the fruits a person living in Michoacan Mexico might eat?

 

Any ideas of sources would be appreciated.

Thanks,

 

Tracy L. Mehlin        206-543-0415

Library Specialist     tmehlin@u.washington.edu

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Elisabeth C. Miller Library

Center For Urban Horticulture

University of Washington

Box 354115

Seattle, WA 98195-4115

 



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