APPLE PRODUCTION

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1938, Page 12

APPLE PRODUCTION

UNITED STATES POSITION

In a comprehensive survey on the, world production and mar/keting of apples and pears, just published by the Imperial Economic Committee, it is stated that no country approaches the United States as a producer of dessert and cooking apples. In total production, France. comes next, but most of the apples grown there are of cider varieties, and the yield of table fruit is usually less than in the United Kingdom, where the total crop is very much smaller. In Germany, the Soviet Union, Poland, and Switzerland, which are among the next most important apple-producing countries, cider, fruit also accounts for a relatively large proportion of the total output. In the United Kingdom, the increase in production since the war has been due mainly to heavier crops of dessert and cooking apples, but the output of cider fruit still represents, on the average, about 25 per cent, of the, crop. Apple production in the United Kingdom and the Dominions is small, compared with that of the U.S.A. and som/_ European countries, and thie total Empire production probably accounts for less than 10 per cent, of the world total. Nevertheless, Empire countries have become increasingly important since the war, and in the four, years 1934----37 produced on the average approximately 48,000,000 bushels a year m comparison with about 36,000,000 in the years 1924-28.