Sainsbury's claims to have had its best-ever season for sales of British-grown apples, shifting more than 38,000 tonnes, equivalent to 300-million apples.
Latest Defra figures have confirmed the differing fortunes of Britain's fruit and vegetable growers, with fruit showing continuing strong returns while those from vegetables have slipped back.
Essex farm will become a visitor site after meeting environmental charity's sustainability brief.
Nominations opened last week for the annual Brammy Awards, which reward excellence in using Bramley cooking apples.
Thatchers' 50,000 new trees will also extend cider maker's harvesting window to early season.
An untidy pear orchard may be better equipped to cope with infestations of pear sucker (Psylla pyri) than a highly-maintained one, a recent trial has found.
The thinning agent MaxCel has been approved for use by British apple growers, in time for the current season.
Construction work began last week on AC Goatham & Son's new £7.5m headquarters near Strood in north Kent.
Bensons Totally Fruity has become the first British apple juice producer to bear the Red Tractor mark.
South African apple exports are predicted to grow by 4.4 per cent in 2012, with growers claiming both high quantity and quality this year.
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