130 jobs cut as Plant City tomato producer shuts farm operations

Ag-Mart Produce, which operates as Santa Sweets, is laying off 120 employees as it “discontinues domestic farming operations.”

Most of the cuts will happen at a Plant City facility where 104 people will lose their jobs. The company will also lay off eight employees in Manatee County — four in Myakka City and four in Duette — and eight in Jennings, which is in Hamilton County at the state line with Georgia. In May the company laid off 10 employees in Immokalee, eastern Collier County. 

In all, 130 people will have lost their jobs when the process is over, the company says.