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| Mississippi inmates harvesting 300 pounds of tomatoes a week |
| By clarionledger.com |
| Published: 04/23/2018 |
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PARCHMAN — Inmates at a prison in the Mississippi Delta are growing tomatoes in a greenhouse, and officials expect the harvest to be about 8,000 pounds by the end of May. The state Department of Corrections resurrected two greenhouses last year at Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman in an effort to rehabilitate inmates. The department says tending more than 700 tomato plants increases inmates' productivity and teaches them skills they can use after release. Read More. |
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Mississippi inmates are harvesting 3000 tomatoes in a week, wow how is that possible what is the tomato fertilizer ratio in their fertilizer which they must be using, or else I don’t know how the production is so high.