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Seeds of Trade

 
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Product: Tomato

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   Tomato belongs to the category Food crops
   and originated in The Americas

 SUMMARY
 WILD RELATIVES
 ORIGINS
 EARLY USES
 TRANSFER AND SPREAD
 AGRICULTURE
 MODERN CONTEXT
  POST HARVEST


Origins of cultivation

Tomatoes are all native to the dry areas of the western coasts of South America and so it is logical to assume that cultivation first began there. However, the origins of tomato cultivation are unknown, although seeds have been found in many pre-Columbian archaeological sites in dry coastal South America.