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Article: Fruit basket of the world: Rich in resources from renewable energy to almonds.(MARKET SPOTLIGHT)(Statistical data)
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- National Petroleum News
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY IN CALIFORNIA IS MADE UP BY the northern half of the larger Central Valley, the section lying north of the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta. The area includes the cities of Redding, Red Bluff, Chico, Yuba City, Sacramento, Stockton, Modesto, Merced, Truckee, South Lake Tahoe and Lakeport, among others. According to the Great Valley Web site, www.greatvalley.org, the population for the Sacramento Valley was 2,425,619 in 2000 and is forecasted to grow to 2,919,652 in 2010.
The terrain of the area is mostly flat grasslands set in between the mountain ranges to the west, the Northern Coast Ranges, the north, Siskiyou Mountains, and to the east, the ...