Orchards take years to yield a return and the loss to the rural economy and the environment will be enormous if sales decline.

As orchards take years to yield a return, we and our growers, all local, have been investing heavily in the planting of hundreds of acres of orchards.

Instead, they redistribute reserves and enable otherwise idle funds to yield a return.

Investment refers to the expenditure towards goods that are expected to yield a return or increase their own value over time.

Their remaining eleven games yielded a return of merely seven points, lacking a reserve side, fatigue had set into the first team.