The bar chart illustrates fruit production in one particular state of Australia in the years 1995, 2005, and 2015, with units measured in kilograms.
Overall, while oranges, apples, and peaches experienced upward trends in their production volumes, the opposite was observed in peaches. Furthermore, it was apples which showed consistently higher figures among the other fruit types, overtaking pears, which were the leading produce in the first decades.
With regard to the production of apples and pears, they showed reversing patterns. The former’s figure, which stood at nearly 80 million kg, exhibited a significant increase in the following decades, reaching around 120 million kg in 2015. The latter, however, bucked the trend, going down dramatically from about 130 million kg in 1995 to 80 million kg in the final year – similar to apples’ 1995 figure.
Turning to the remaining two fruit types (oranges and peaches), they also mirrored the production of apples. Starting at around 70 million kg in 1995, the quantity of oranges produced grew steadily, going up to approximately 90 million kg after two decades. A similar yet significant pattern was seen in the figure for peaches, which was at almost 40 million kg in 1995. This number then rose substantially until 2015, hitting its all-time high at roughly 70 million kg.