Production
Plums are produced around the world, and China is the world's largest producer. The table below shows the ten largest producers of plums and sloe in 2010; the second to tenth rankings change almost every year due in part to the alternate bearing nature of plum trees.
In the United States, the Japanese variety of plums are predominant. California was the dominant producer in 2010; other producers are Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Michigan. Mild winters, minimal rainfall during the growing season and low humidity favor more productive crops in California.
| Top ten plum and sloe producers in 2010 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Country | Production (metric tons) |
Yield (MT/hectare) |
| China | 5,664,826 | 3.37 |
| Romania | 624,884 | 9.02 |
| USA | 492,964 | 13.49 |
| Serbia | 426,846 | 3.28 |
| Chile | 298,000 | 15.98 |
| France | 280,415 | 14.93 |
| Iran | 269,139 | 25.19 |
| Turkey | 240,806 | 14.49 |
| Italy | 207,497 | 14.59 |
| India | 200,000 | 8.0 |
| World Total | 10,987,488 | 4.51 |
| Source: Food & Agriculture Organization | ||
Read more about this topic: Plum
Famous quotes containing the word production:
“An art whose limits depend on a moving image, mass audience, and industrial production is bound to differ from an art whose limits depend on language, a limited audience, and individual creation. In short, the filmed novel, in spite of certain resemblances, will inevitably become a different artistic entity from the novel on which it is based.”
—George Bluestone, U.S. educator, critic. “The Limits of the Novel and the Limits of the Film,” Novels Into Film, Johns Hopkins Press (1957)
“Constant revolutionizing of production ... distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“The society based on production is only productive, not creative.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)