date:Mar 11, 2014
-priced upscale fruit throughout the year at the same time import volumes of relatively inexpensive fruit grew. In fact, the market share of the three most popular mass-market fruit categories citrus, bananas and apples increased to 69.2 percent of the total volume of fruit imports, while citrus kept its position of the number one fruit category. Apples made up 21.3 percent of the total volume of imported fruit (up from 20.8 percent in 2012), bananas made up 21.4 percent of that (up from 20.4