Information sources:

China's Rising Fruit and Vegetable Exports Challenge U.S. Industries, by Sophia Huang and Fred Gale, FTS 320-01, USDA Economic Research Service, February 2006.

Amber Waves, USDA Economic Research Service publication, April 2006,

Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Foreign Trade Statistics

California Vegetables Face China Inroad on Pacific Rim, Western Farm Press, March 15, 2003.

Rural Migration News, University of California, Davis, online report taken from Carol J. Williams, "Globalization Uproots Island's Banana Trees," Los Angeles Times, April 9, 2006. Andrew Pollack, "Biotech's Sparse Harvest," New York Times, February 14, 2006. Access at: http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=1118_0_5_0