The economy of the village was based on agriculture and fruit-growing for centuries.

The people of Ta'if carried on agriculture and fruit-growing in addition to their trade activities.

They preserved the varieties of apple and knowledge of fruit-growing.

Viticulture and fruit-growing are most important activities.

"And some fruit-growing.

Willmenrod has a fire brigade, a sport club, a fruit-growing and gardening club and a mixed choir.

Farming, olive-growing, viniculture, fruit-growing, tobacco, herbs (sage, laurel, woodworm), fishing and tourism are the villages chief occupations.

In a description from 1845, the regional administration of the Welzheim Oberamt noted Plüderhäusen to be an agricultural region and emphasized the importance of the district's fruit-growing.

He was born at Rosette (later Round Hill, Nova Scotia), the son of John Whitman, and, after completing his education, engaged in agriculture and fruit-growing.

The south of the province is the northern part of the Hesbaye region (in Dutch: Haspengouw), with fertile soils, farming and fruit-growing, and historically the higher population density.

Settlements of returned soldiers from World War I were well established in Miranda at this time and the area was considered to be one of the best fruit-growing and poultry farming areas.

In 1892, Rhodes financed The Pioneer Fruit Growing Company at Nooitgedacht, a venture created by Harry Pickstone, an Englishman who had experience with fruit-growing in California.

Vegetable and fruit-growing for a nearby market can be profitable on the right land, but this is very labour-intensive, and does not combine well with stock farming, which also requires the undivided attention of the smallholder.

With the present problems in fruit-growing and horticulture in mind, I urge that, before the substitution principle is introduced, the effects of the reduction in the agents permitted in the EU - from over 800 to some 300 by the end of 2000 - should be analysed.