Indio, California

===Agriculture===
[[File:Shields Date Palm Garden (5543859993).jpg|thumb|upright|Entrance sign of the Shields Date Garden in Indio]]

Indio has been one of Southern California's most important agricultural regions, once responsible for a large percentage of the nation's date crop; however, due to increasing residential and recreational development, the date groves are now more limited to the south and southeast of Indio. Even the grove of date palm trees at the Riverside County Fair and national Date Festival grounds have been removed by the county.{{Citation needed|date=June 2008}}

One can visit [[Shields Date Gardens]], a date grower that maintains a large retail store along State Highway 111. There are [[citrus]] groves and vegetable fields surrounding the city limits, but rapid development of new housing tracts and golf courses in the "East Valley" in the 1990s and 2000s has displaced most of the agricultural space.