[OC] Over the last decade, Chile has risen to become the world's third-largest producer of cherries, only behind Turkey and the United States. 🍒mystlurker t1_j08qv8n wrote
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Pretty similar to the western US (particularly California and Arizona) growing the water heavy crops mostly for export (to China). In particular almonds and alfalfa stand out as crops primarily grown for export but are extremely water intensive.
The western US has been in a similar drought to Chile for the past few years (its second major drought in the last decade, though it’s all probably one big drought). Have to imagine they are related.
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