El Mar de plastico in Almeria , Spain region, Europe's tomato factory can be seen from space

I've been on a roadtrip all across magnificent Spain. Going from nature reserve to permaculture project spreading the idea of Adaptation Gardening and sharing seeds.
I knew there where a lot of plastic greenhouses in Andalusia, but i was truly shocked by the scale of it. One of the more modern ones was from Bayer. We drove into it because there was an application for campervans which said there was a source of water that we needed to fill up. It was superdepressing, containers poisons laying around and it looked shabby as hell.  We decided against taking water there.
It's mostly crops that need a lot of heat, like aubergines and bell peppers i saw they grow.
I don't want to be un-thankful or something , i'm lucky to be alive in a time where there's such abundance, but it's so unsustainable and you see black people on electric stepbikes completely covered in bandanas, apparently they're superlow paid illegal immigrants that slave away in 50 degree celcius =122 F that live in shanty town conditions.

I'm taking part in a breeding project to grow late blight resistant tomatos. Another thing we try to achieve is upright standing without support, low input, no cides and tomatos that grow high off the ground and all that in temperate climate. It is a lot to wish for, but we have to try, because if accepting this is the alternative?

Thank you for posting this Hugo - I had no idea! I guess we in the UK see Spanish tomatoes and think that they must grow them outside - Spain has a hot climate right? Obviously there is more to it with modern chemical cultivation - they control water, carbon dioxide, who knows what else....

Hugo Morvan wrote:I'm taking part in a breeding project to grow late blight resistant tomatos. Another thing we try to achieve is upright standing without support, low input, no cides and tomatos that grow high off the ground and all that in temperate climate. It is a lot to wish for, but we have to try, because if accepting this is the alternative?

Thank you for taking part in this important work! When I get my tunnel up and and running I'll be right with you - or maybe I'll try with Eino to grow them outside! We've got so many good tomato breeding projects going on.

Here are a few others I found:
breeding tomatoes in Montana
another link to same project
Joseph Lofthouse's promiscuous tomatoes
Northern Oceanic tomatoes (outside in scandinavia)

The breeding projects are very important, they mean i get seeds send to me, i have to overseed and start culling for some characterists. Like if they don't want to stand upright on their own, but sprawl on the floor, if the pistol is not out in the flower, but sits inside like with normal flowers, taste things like that.
The more people join, the faster progress will go. the faster progress has gone, the easier the breeding program will become, the more people will join, the more scanning for favorite characteristics will happen.
It would be good to get the people of the projects into contact if they are not already.