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How To Pick A Pepper
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The Ugly Tomato Problem
In the 1950s in California, 5,000 farmers relied on migrant workers to pick tomatoes. Scientists had been working on a tomato harvester and a tomato plant for 10 years at that point. The Bresero program was eventually terminated but it wasn't terminated until later. And so the tomato harvesting machine and the tomato actually came first.
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