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Spicy, bitter or hot: new flavors are offered by ethnic varieties. Find information about those fruits and vegetables customarily valued by people with common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic or cultural origin or background.

World Crops
University of Massachusetts.; Rutgers University. Cooperative Research and Extension Service.
Provides crop profiles by region and country, and glossaries of vegetable, herb and selected fruit crops in English-Spanish and Spanish-English.
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Farming for Ethnic Markets
University of Massachusetts.
Fact sheets on ethnic crop production and marketing in English, Spanish, Khmer, Hmong, Vietnamese and Portuguese.
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Maryland Ethnic Vegetable
University of Maryland. Cooperative Extension Service; Maryland Department of Agriculture.
Includes sections on production and marketing and the Ethnic and Specialty Vegetables Handbook.
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Last Modified: Dec 4, 2007  
Alternative Crops and Plants
  Specialty, Heirloom and Ethnic Fruits and Vegetables
Ethnic Crops
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