Sentences with phrase «apple industry»

That sums up nicely how something that was taken for granted, the export apple industry in this example, can suddenly crash.

But no nation now plays as pivotal a role in the global apple industry as China.

Passing the rows and rows of apple trees I am reminded of how locally sourced apple picking is and how except for the rows that look like aisles, how far removed it is from the industrial apple industry that decorates grocery stores across America.

Author and Huon resident, Beth Hall, sums up the situation as it developed in the seventies when she writes that»... in 1973 the death knell for the Tasmanian Apple Industry sounded.

A resurgent apple industry would be a good thing in Tasmania, especially if some of the tastier old varieties could be resurrected and cleverly marketed to Australian buyers.

«We've also been to Europe and are looking for new varieties to bring to the United States similar to what the apple industry has done.

The local wine industry's rise has helped spur the apple industry's fall, but another force is also at play: global competition and the bizarre economic dynamic that can make goods produced half the world away cheaper than those from down the road.

Using the apple industry as an example, around two - thirds of apples produced do not meet supermarket specifications.

MY ARRIVAL in Tasmania coincided with the collapse of the state's apple industry.

Why I dredge my brain for memories of those times I lived in Tasmania — an island so physically close to the mainland but so mentally distant — is thanks to coming across a story of the history of the apple industry in the Huon on the Tasmanian Geographic website.

The apple industry contends, however, that the levels of pesticide residues detected in the apples are well within safe ranges.

Worth noting is that this study only used two pesticides, whereas the apple industry has many more on its list of acceptable chemicals.

Led by chemist Lili He, the researchers sprayed organic Gala apples with two pesticides commonly used in the apple industry — thiabendazole, a fungicide, and phosmet, an insecticide.