Assessing the environmental impact and sustainability of apple cultivation
2017
Our modern apple production systems have substantially increased in productivity and
sophistication over the last several decades. Much of the rest of this book focuses on the
science and technology by which those increases have occurred. However, like many other
modern farming systems, increased productivity often results in undesirable environmental
impacts, which lower the overall sustainability of the enterprise (Merwin and Pritts, 1993)
(Fig. 1). Focusing on increasing yields and fruit quality at the sacrifice of maintaining
agricultural resource bases such as land, water and biodiversity can significantly threaten
the long-term viability of orchards, particularly if resources become so degraded or
contaminated that future production becomes limited or impossible.
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