Essay On Demand Of Fruits And Vegetables

Coffee, sugarcane, sisal, and fruit are the dominant commercial crops, while beans, rice, corn, and sorghum are the main food crops. Coffee is the dominant export. Sugarcane, cotton, sisal, coconuts, and vetiver are raised on plantations

You get to plant trees of certain kinds a fruit like apples, pears, cherries, peaches, oranges, lemons, durians, lychees, and mangos.

Wheat and sugarcane are the leading crops, followed by barley, oats, rice, potatoes, cotton, sunflower seeds, and tomatoes. Fruits include grapes, primarily for wine, and oranges, apples, pineapples, and bananas.

“Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells” (Friedman, T. n.d.). The introductory quotation from American Journalist Thomas Friedman establishes the purpose of this essay. This essay will briefly exhibit two factors that would change the demand for the product produced by GNC (General Nutrition Center); as elaborated upon in the last Session Long Project (SLP) this is the franchise I’ve selected for study during the duration of this session. Next, will be a short overview of activities that would affect changes in supply. After that, how could quantity demanded by changed? Finally, the type of demand the GNC product promulgates whether it is elastic or inelastic. First, let us dive into the two factors would change the demand for the GNC product.

Over the next forty years, global population is expected to reach nine billion people. This increase in population, combined with expected economic growth, will cause an increase in food demanded and inevitably drain the resources we use for food production. So far, agriculture has been able to respond positively to the rising demand for crop and livestock products. However, farmers are already faced with many new challenges associated with feeding an expanding global population. Farmers must now meet strict new emissions requirements and produce more food on fewer acres while minimizing their environmental footprint. The demand for food is expected to grow substantially in the next couple decades. Some of the factors affecting an increase in food demands are population growth, rising incomes of individuals, food supply factors, and biofuels.

The acai berry is a unique fruit that mostly grows in the Amazon; this limited product is wanted

The acai tree is a rare palm tree that is most commonly known for the tasty edible fruits that it produces. The demand for the fruit that grows on these trees has rapidly expanded in recent years. The oil that is found in the fruit is used a lot in shampoos and cosmetics, but also used for cooking.

[By doing so, customers ultimately get better value, therefore each member of the supply chain gains competitive advantage.] Pars Food Ltd currently outsources their raw materials, therefore they have looked at sourcing their own potatoes with their own transport. Due to high amounts of quality rejection of frozen chips, they would like to reduce this, thus, having their own transport means they are now in control of how their raw materials get to their factories and therefore can monitor quality more closely, ultimately improving it. In terms of investing in storage and improving customer satisfaction and zero complaint levels; Jane William’s Idea of using the Just in Time method may achieve this, by having their own transport they have control over how reliable the supply is and communication should not be a problem. Therefore products can be made as they are needed and their won’t be as much need for storage e.g. “Stake Cut Chips” which have been left in storage for 2 months and not shifted.

Although coffee has been the country’s most important crop, in more recent years, less traditional crops have been playing an important role in the economy. The second most important crop would be bananas, with vast plantations that cover parts of the Caribbean lowlands. There are other crop that are dedicated to the cultivation of pineapples, sugar, oranges, rice, hardwoods, and ornamental plants, as well as cattle raising for beef and dairy products.

One fruit that caught my eye was a cucumber. I love cucumbers. Cucumbers are my favorite thing to eat! Cucumbers go with anything. They’re so easy to eat but not so easy to grow! You have to grow cucumbers in a warm climate too hot or to cold of a climate can stress the crop out. You have to mulch cucumbers above 70 degrees or they’ll get stressed out and die. You have to handle cucumbers very carefully or they’ll get stressed out. You would have to regulate the crop very carfully! They need tons of sunlight and plenty of water. The cucumber also needs good soil and fertilizer. Like people they can be very picky. You also have to kill the weeds that are by the cucumber.

Harvesting pineapples is usually done by hand and assisted by machines which collect the fruit into hampers. Fruit yields can be up to 40 tons per acre. Although, the first ratoon crop will have lower yields around 30 tons and the fruit will be smaller. This reduction in fruit size and uniformity leads to the plants only being allowed to produce two to three crops on a pineapple plantation maximum. Then a new plantation must be located and prepared. After the harvest is done there will residue leftover in the field. To get rid of this residue it will be plowed up next time the field is being prepared for planting.

Hence, the variety of passionfruit can limit productivity. Different varieties are suited to different climates and growing conditions. In general yellow-fruited varieties are more productive and produce higher yields than purple-fruited varieties. However there are a large variety of different cultivars and hybrids which vary in productivity and yields (Queensland Government Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, 2012).

We live in an age in which we have come to expect everything to be instantaneously at our fingertips. We live in an age of instant coffee, instant tea, and even instant mashed potatoes. We can walk down the street at 5 in the morning and get a gallon of milk or even a weeks worth of groceries at our discretion. Even though it is great that food is now readily available at all times, this convenience comes at a price, for both the producer and the consumer. Farmers are cheated out of money and are slaves to big business, workers and animals are mistreated. And, because food now comes at a low cost, it has become cheaper quality and therefore potentially dangerous to the consumer’s health. These problems surrounding the ethics and the

Fyffes procures its products worldwide and is one of the leading distributors of southern hemisphere fresh produce in Europe, in particular fresh produce sourced from South Africa and South America. The most common themes arising from the top managers so far involved the need to foster relationships among the SBUs and work with each other to reduce costs (Geoff Percival, 2012). It is critical for the relationship between the suppliers (Other region markets) and the distributors (UK, Ireland and EU). The four SBUs work together for the fresh fruits supplying and selling, the company launched its worldoffruit.com web site and subsidiary, offering Internet-based business-to-business fruits and vegetables sourcing and information supporting the company's operations are its network of 100 storage, distribution, ripening, and other facilities, a fleet of 17 company-owned or leased temperature-controlled ships, and its own land-based transportation fleet, it can share and reduce the transport cost. The synergy management of the four SBUs also helps Fyffes add more value to the supply chain and make the delivery more efficient.

producer of groundnut, next only to China. But groundnut being primarily a Kharif (monsoon) crop is vulnerable to vagaries of monsoon and also speculative activities. In 1996, the Government set up a Technology Mission on oil seeds, to increase production of other oil seeds and oil, and to reduce dependence on imports. The strategy followed was:  To increase productivity with better farm inputs and practices.  To increase area under oilseed crop.  To encourage winter (Rabi) oilseed crops. This led to a sharp increase in oilseed production driven mainly by rapeseed, sunflower, castor seed and Soya Oil seed production jumped from 6.1mn ton in the mid 80's to around 22mn ton currently. India is today world’s third largest producer of rapeseed and cottonseed and the largest producer of castor seed. Timely and adequate rain is expected to result in an all time high oilseed production of 142.4 lakh tonnes during the current year as compared