Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Walmart plans to double local produce it sells

Walmart says it plans to triple the amount of food it buys from small and medium farmers by 2015. As part of the company's efforts to improve its global-sustainability efforts it also plans to provide training to 1 million farmers in its food supply chain, Andria Cheng of The Wall Street Journal reports. In the U.S. Walmart says it plans to double, to 10 percent, the amount of local produce it sells. (Read more)

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