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06-25-2005, 08:47 AM #1
A GROWING PROBLEM Farmers fear U.S. exports
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mp ... ss/3240363
June 24, 2005, 10:58PM
Daniel Pepper / For the Chronicle
Hipolito Cuauhtémoc will stop harvesting apples in the Mexican state of Hidalgo after 22 years. The North American Free Trade Agreement has allowed imports of low-cost Washington state apples, and Cuauhtémoc says it is too hard to compete.
A GROWING PROBLEM
Farmers fear U.S. exports
'How is the Third World supposed to trade with the First World?'
By ELIZA BARCLAY
Houston Chronicle Foreign Service
A CAXOCHITLAN, MEXICO - Hipolito Cuauhtémoc has worked as an apple farmer in the small central state of Hidalgo for 22 years, but he says this year's harvest in orchards that stretch over a few acres will be his last.
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