Air transport is increasingly used to export fruit and vegetables to countries where they cannot be grown or are out of season. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this?

More and more fruit and vegetables are imported from some countries to nations where they are not available by air.

This

essay will

first

suggest that fresh fruit for the whole year is the primary benefit of

this

while price increasing is the main drawback. The main reason those products are imported to countries where they are impossible to grow is because consumers can have a chance to eat fresh products every time. Fresh crops cannot be stored for a long time unless they are frozen. Air

transport

, which is the fastest way to import them, is the only way to keep them fresh during the travelling time between two countries.

For example

, North America’s temperature is usually below 0 degree Celsius for almost 8 months every year,

hence

80% of fresh harvest here are imported from South America where they can be grown easier. Despite

this

benefit, the high cost of those products is the disadvantage of air

transport

.

This

increasing comes from the air’s expense and the tax between countries. Because fruit and vegetables are not the

last

-long products, people cannot reduce the price of transportation by using the cheaper one

such

as ship

transport

or train transportation.

For instance

, Vietnamese’s durian, which is sold in Chinese supermarket in Canada, always has 10 times higher price than that in Vietnam due to the transportation’s fee. In conclusion, air

transport

may bring the freshest products to consumers in nations where they are impossible to grow, but the high cost of those can be a main reason to prevent people buying them.