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Garbanzo bean plantings increase

You should find a few more California-grown garbanzo beans at the market in the coming year. The state’s farmers intend to plant 2 percent more garbanzos than they did last year. Farmers will plant more kidney beans, too, but otherwise California bean plantings will decrease, compared to a year ago. Plantings of lima beans and black-eye beans will be reduced, and overall bean acreage has dropped 15 percent.