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This new system had the advantages of both saving time and labour. It also appeared that spoilage, with regard to Valencias at least, had shown a slight decline. A labour-saving system of harvesting citrus, in which fruit is plucked rather than clipped from trees, is giving encouraging results in a countrywide research project.
Although a final decision on whether the new method can be adopted by growers of all types of citrus has yet to