Landowners across the country are digging up their orchards as apple production becomes financially unviable. According to British Apples and Pears Limited (BAPL), British apple growers normally plan to plant 1 million to 1.5 million trees every year. But this year growers ordered just 500,000 saplings - and they have since cancelled a third of those.
It reported that confidence in British apple growing is understandably low - with 70 per cent of growers admitting they are less confident than they were a year ago and almost half (45 per cent) of respondents said they have scaled back their future investment plans. Just three per cent said they have a 'true partnership' with supermarkets, while 45 per cent say retailers only care about price.
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