Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Recent Changes in the Citrus Industry of Israel
In the next 8 years the present acres of bearing groves will provide the commercial production, which may be expected to approximate boxes of oranges, boxes of grapefruit, and boxes of lemons. There will not be any marked change in production until acreage yet to be planted begins to come into bearing in 1960. Then orange production may increase to about boxes per year. Restricted production Will limit the importance of the processing industry in the next 10 years unless unusual difficulties are encountered in marketing fresh fruit. At the production levels which Will prevail it may be expected that approximately boxes of oranges, boxes of grapefruit, and boxes of lemons Will be used for process ing. The most important product will be 65 Brix orange Jce concentrate which will be supplied to the British Ministry of Food for the child health program. About pounds of this product may be expected to be available for export in a normal year until 1958. Because of reduced citrus supplies, many citrus processing plants are canning other food items to utilize plant capacity. This is the most significant recent change. Experimentation is being carried on to develop a non-alcohol method of producing pectin and there is some experimentation in progress on frozen concentrates and dehydrated peel. The presence of the Mediterranean fruit fly prevents the production of high quality orange juice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
