LEMON SUPPLY IN N.Z.
Fluctuations Will Continue Seasonal fluctuations in the supply of lemons in New Zealand will continue for some years, says the annual report of the Horticultural Division of the Department of Agriculture. “Lemon production in New Zealand is still increasing as the result of heavy plantings soon after the war, but yields should level out before long to an annual mean of about 100,000 cases of standards and 25,000 cases of Meyers. “This supply should be sufficient more or less to satisfy demand for a few years, but summer shortages and winter surpluses will continue, necessitating imports in the off-season and juice and peel outlets and cool storage for winter crop excess,” says the report. “If adequate yields of lemons are to be maintained, a planting rate of at least 100 Q to 1100 new trees a year is necessary. This may be achieved for, though there is general dissatisfaction with returns for Meyer lemons, standard lemons may be returning to favour with some grow-, ers.”
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29265, 25 July 1960, Page 16
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