C6—Lancaster farming, Saturday, January 14,1984
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Small
farmers growing fresh-market
produce appear destined to play
starring roles in a cautious rebirth
of the state’s vegetable industry.
That’s the view of Bruno
Quebedeaux, Jr., horticulture
department chairman since
September at the University of
Maryland in College Park.
Quebedeaux was a speaker
Tuesday morning during the sixty
fifth annual meeting of the
Maryland Vegetable Growers
Association at the Maryland
Wholesale Produce Market in
Jessup.
Quebedeaux pointed out that 75
to 80 million people live within a
350 to 400-mile radius of Baltimore.
And U.S. per capita consumption
of fresh vegetables has been rising
during the past five years in line
with increased nutrition
awareness.
A vegetable specialist with in
dustry and academic experience,
both nationwide and overseas,
Quebedeaux noted several factors
that favor vegetable production in
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Rebirth of vegetables
Maryland and most of the Mid-
Atlantic area.
These include a favorable
climate that lends itself to double
cropping and even triple
cropping of fresh market
vegetables; relatively short
transportation hauls to major
markets, and a resource pool of
technical expertise both in the
commercial vegetable industry
and at land-grant universities
throughout the Mid-Atlantic area.
The technical expertise is partly
a carryover from a generation or
more ago when commercial
vegetable-growing in the
Delmarva area was at its peak.
Since that time, the industry
suffered a steady decline through
most of the 1970 s as processng
plants closed up and moved
westward.
But the rebirth which
Quebedeaux forsees would depend
primarily on small farmers
throughout the state growing
fresh-market produce not large
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In line with this philosophy, he
reported plans for horticulture
department f'Tnansioi during the
next five years m cooperatiion with
the Maryland Agricultural Ex
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university’s Eastern Shore
vegetable research farm near
Salisbury and possible purchase of
additional land at that location.
Quebedeaux’s philosophy also
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Quebedeaux’s hope is that both
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The Maryland department
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compatible both with market
demand and withenvironmental
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On the latter point, both research
and Extension specialists need to
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