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1951, or a 7 per cent acreage increase. For sweet potatoes the goal for 1952 is 19,090 acres compared to 17,000 last year for a 12 per cent increase;
(Still other crops on the summer and fall vegetable goals listing for Virginia, where the same acreage as 1951 is recommended, are cucumbers, onions, tomatoes, green peppers, vlima beans, and watermelons. % In overall production, Virginia has a rank of importance in truck crop production. In 1951, production of potatoes was 5,882,00 bushels, and that of sweet potatoes ' was 2,210,000 bushels, both well below average. But the harvest of other truck crops, excluding potatoes and sweet potatoes, was over average, a total of 195,700 tons on 57570 acres in 1951. That compared with 177,500 tons produced on 50,280 acres in 1950.
Virginia’s leading truck crops, ranked in point- of 1951 value, were: potatoes, $8,602,00; sweet potatoes, $5,194,000; tomatoes, $3,901,000; snap beans, $1,956,000; strawberries, $1,622,000; spinach, $1,047,000; and. green peppers, $601,000.
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