Although many American advertisements suggest that Florida remains the orange juice capital of the world, the video below shows how that’s not quite the case. Due to the state’s extreme weather and a number of other factors, the South American nation of Brazil has long stood as the globe’s top producer of OJ.
Questions:
- Why has the size of Florida’s orange crop fallen so much in recent years?
- What are the benefits and drawbacks of Brazil’s dominance of the orange industry?