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This growth follows a 20 year trend in which California almond acreage has doubled, matching increasing global demand for almonds. California almond producers harvested their largest crop in 2011 at about 2.03 billion pounds, the first time on record that the industry produced over two billion pounds.
In 2013 growers again harvested over two billion pounds of almonds, which when combined with record prices; put the industry’s gross value at well over $6 billion.
