But since taking office last December, Australia's new Labor government has announced a seasonal labour scheme for the fruit-picking industry, to be open to PNG, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Tonga.
The DoD's sensor funding can be expected to bear fruit for the medical services industry, as advanced remote physiological sensing and monitoring could have an enormous impact on home monitoring in the nursing industry.
But a more difficult fact may be facing the industry: Much of the low-hanging fruit in areas such as heart disease may have already been plucked.
As Apple's iMac computer - which has a handle but no floppy drive and comes in fruit colors - continues to win new customers, an industry rethink is underway.
Rio's boosters point to new investment in textiles, fruit, a new deepwater port and a resurgent steel and shipbuilding industry.
El Ejido is the centre for fruit and vegetable production on Spain's southern coast - an industry that relies heavily on cheap immigrant labour.
Fortunately for the state's most important industry, citrus, the infestation is occurring before the fruit is ripe and being prepared for shipping to distant markets.
She was particularly critical of industry's decision to allow companies to advertise popsicles and fruit roll-ups to children.
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The food industry said it supported government action to encourage children to eat more fruit and vegetables.
If Apple retail-store employees get tired of working under the sign of the fruit, a whole bunch of them could have good careers in the auto industry.
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Fruit farmers complain that unscrupulous agents have damaged the reputation of their export-oriented industry by dumping poor-quality apples, pears and peaches on the European markets.
Commercial farming is a major industry in South Africa -- it distributes produce all over the world while Johannesburg's fruit market sells about a million tons of goods every year.
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There was a pilot investigation program, which, among other things, traced a 1904 fruit-decay crisis in California to cuts in the fruit from stem clippers and the fingernails of handlers (and, along the way, introduced modern packing methods industry-wide).
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