There presently is in excess of 5,000 acres of greenhouse production in Mexico, about 1,800 acres of that in tomatoes, according to a report given Sept. 3 during the Florida Tomato Institute in Naples. The study was conducted by Dan Cantliffe, with the University of Florida Horticultural Sciences Department, and John Vansickle, with the UF Food and Resource Economics Department, both in Gainesville. Commercial greenhouse production of horticultural crops in Mexico began in the 1950s, according to the report, and has come a long way in modernization since that time. In those earlier years, local growers produced flowers in wood-type structures covered with plastic. Later, in the 1980s, they began using greenhouse-type structures to grow vegetables.In the 1990s, the road to modernization continued and larger, more modern greenhouse structures began appearing in various production areas across the country.
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