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| | Garlic field day reviews issues and varieties |
 | | For vegetative planting of garlic, about 2,000 pounds per acre is set out, at a ballpark cost of at least $1,000 per acre, not counting the risks of contracting disease in the handling of stock. |
 | | Maria de la Fuente, Cooperative Extension director for Santa Clara County, said the California garlic industry’s concerns, in addition to white-rot, are the potential loss of existing crop protection materials, the difficulty of registering new materials for minor crops, and the increasing Chinese imports, estimated at 50,000 tons in 1999. |
 | | Garlic acreage in the state in 1999 was 40,000, some 90 percent of it in the San Joaquin Valley and concentrated in Fresno County. |
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