Our requirements for such labor now total 4.000 to 4.500 annually. This is down sharply from the maximum of about 9.000 previously employed. From 1960 to 1963. manmonths of Mexican labor in Arizona declined 49 percent. Thus far this year. I have not received word of any crop losses or deterioration from inadequate labor. Our lettuce crop was harvested with the help of "green card" Mexicansresident aliens who commute from Mexico to our fields daily. Furthermore. the market for lettuce was so low that some growers left second and third cuttings in the field. This month our orange crop begins coming off and will require about 1.000 pickers.
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