YOU wouldn't know it to look at it today but the Clyde Valley was once famous for its tomatoes.
YOU wouldn't know it to look at it today but the Clyde Valley was once famous for its tomatoes.
REAPING REWARDS: David Craig, below, who runs Clyde Valley Tomatoes, will receive a £100,000 boost, great news for the tomato industry.
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In the 1950s and 60s there were hundreds of growers and acres of industrial-sized greenhouses as far as the eye could see.
They produced enough tomatoes to feed the entire country, with enough left over for export but, gradually, cheaper imports from countries across the EU put all but three Scottish growers out of business.
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