ISHS Acta Horticulturae 200: II International Symposium on Processing Tomatoes, XXII IHC
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The Programme Committee of the XXIInd International Horticultural Congress in Davis decided in consultation with the American Society for Horticultural Science and the ISHS to publish the papers of the one-day symposia and of some of the workshops held during this Congress. The ASHS will publish the proceedings of 23 symposia and one workshop in HortScience while the ISHS will publish in 12 volumes of Acta Horticulturae 8 symposia, 3 workshops and a compilation of papers on different economic aspects presented in different sessions. We will publish these volumes in the first half of 1987. This will be made possible with the important assistance we have received from the moderators and from the authors by using the proposed ISHS-publishing system. The Programme Committee and the ISHS are very grateful for the work done by Dr.
W.L. Sims for this Acta number 200, titled Second International Symposium on Processing Tomatoes. Welcome to the Second International Symposium on Processing Tomatoes and the processing tomato capital of the USA! Tomatoes rank as the number one vegetable crop in California. From 1982 to 1986, approximately six million tons of processing tomatoes were produced per year on an average of 92,000 hectares and with annual raw product value of over $350 million. In 1985, this represented 87 percent of the total production in the United States. The combination of favorable climate, good soils, ample water supplies, and applied technology helped tomato yields to grow from an average production of two million tons annually in the 1950s to 6.1 million tons in 1985. With the advent of total machine harvest, the total tomato production in California grew from 52 to 87 percent. In California, commercial production occurs in the Imperial and Palo Verde desert valleys, through the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys north to Colusa County, and in the south and central coastal counties. Harvesting begins in the desert valleys in mid-June and ends in the southern coastal areas in November. Thus, it is very fitting that the Second International Symposium on Processing Tomatoes was invited to meet during the XXIInd International Horticultural Congress here at the University of California, Davis. It was purposely planned as an integral part of the Congress and as one of the major Symposia to be presented. The first day of the Symposium was to consist of 12 major invited papers on breeding, cultivar evaluation, the state of the art in genetic engineering, irrigation methods, crop and pest management, and mechanization. The second day was to be an all-day field tour into the local tomato production area, visiting all aspects of production and harvesting. It was also only proper that Dr. Carlos A.M. Portas be invited to serve as a moderator of the second session of the Symposium, as he was the convener of the First Symposium on Production of Tomatoes for Processing in Evora, Portugal, In September 1979 (Acta Horticulturae, No. 100, December 1980). He is also Chairman of the Working Group, Vegetable Production for Processing. | |
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