Fruit Growing in the UK
Farming and countryside news. Sally Challoner explores the new varieties, and new growing techniques, which are feeding renewed supermarket interest in UK grown fruit.
UK apples are gradually clawing back market share from imported interlopers, like the Golden Delicious, and Sally Challoner is in Kent to find out how farmers are doing it. She visits a growing and packing operation which produces 150 million apples every year. Nancy Nicolson finds out about the, rather astringent, berry which could be the next big 'superfood'. And Beatrice Fenton discovers why English cherry growing has gone under cover.
Presented by Sally Challoner and produced by Sarah Swadling.
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- Sat 29 Aug 201506:30BBC Radio 4
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