Agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture
Fruit orchards include any facility focused on growing tree-bearing fruits. Some popular options
include apples, olives, dates and figs. Citrus trees, such as those bearing lemons, limes or
oranges, may be grown all together in large citrus orchards, or individually in smaller facilities.
Plantations that grow fruit-bearing bushes generally don't fall under this category. These include
berries and other fruits not grown on trees.
Nut Orchards
Nut orchards include a large variety of facilities that produce nut-bearing trees. These include
orchards that grow popular nuts like pecans, cashews, walnuts and almonds. This category also
includes cocoa and chocolate-producing nuts, as well as coconuts. Some orchard owners produce
pine trees for their edible pine nuts. Orchards that focus on this type of pine production also fall
under this category.
Seed Orchards
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, seed orchards focus
primarily on growing trees that produce seeds rather than nuts or fruit. These seeds are then sold
to commercial distributors for resale to the public in small seed packets. They may also be sold
to large agricultural facilities or used for food production. Seed orchards can further be divided
into two categories based on how they are established. In a seedling orchard, trees are selected
through controlled pollination. In a clonal seed orchard, seeds are distributed through methods
such as cutting and tissue culture, resulting in an easier harvest overall.
1. Tree Fruits
Avocado
Banana
Star Fruit (Carambola)
Custard Apple
Durian
Jackfruit
Lychee
Mango
Mangosteen
Rambutan
Sapodila
White Sapote
Paw Paw
2. Nuts, Vines and Berries
Strawberry
Solanum
Pepino
Tamarillo
Lilly Pilly
Passionfruit
Coconut
Macadamia
Peanut
Pecan
Pistacio
Cashew
Brazil Nut