baja: farming in the baja

The Baja is desert, yet agriculture is one of it's primary industries. Lots of produce grown in the fields that surround the #1 highway that heads down the pacific coast. The soil is a combination of volcanic ash and sand. Erosion is an issue for farmers as they content with the whipping winds that come off the pacific and the light dry soil. We didn't see much for farm technology. Old weathered tractors seemed to be for the better off. Didn't see any air conditioned green tractors -- the kind that sells cool t-shirts. Most of the work done in these fields are done by hand. Hard manual labor.