Gorgeous groves of date palms planted in stately rows were interspersed with citrus trees and stretched for miles. The prodigious output of the oasis of the Coachella Valley, rivaling that of the Middle East, created such abundance that new descriptions of the place such as Allah’s Garden or Our Araby became common.


http://www.seecalifornia.com/farms/cali ... dates.html plantings cover over 6,500 plus acres. These acres produce over 40 million pounds of our four primary varieties, which are the Deglet-Noor, the Medjool, the Barhi and the Zahidi. The Coachella Valley Date industry maintains a rather steady employment base of around 2,500 people.

the 40 million pounds is less than 15 percent of the world Date production.