It is now an agricultural processing centre handling dairy, wheat, sugar beets, fruit, and lumber produced mainly in the valley.
In agriculture, for instance, practices such as letting plots lay fallow for years at a time, intensive hand weeding, and cultivating a diversity of crops, often in the shade of fruit- or lumber-producing trees have in certain places given way to shorter crop rotation cycles, increased chemical use, and crop monocultures.
The town's economic activities focus on industrial fabrics and dairy and fish products; pulpwood, fish, lumber, fruit, and cattle are exported.
Prospects for a quick conclusion of the trade talks have also been clouded by the Bush administration's decision to invoke antidumping measures against foreign steel producers and by passage of an agriculture bill that grants $180 billion in subsidies to American farmers, who see Chilean fruit, wine and lumber producers as tough rivals.
Lumbering, fruit packing and canning, tree nurseries, wine making, and machine-shop working are the economic mainstays.
This new migration was associated with the development of sugarcane and fruit plantations, sugarcane and lumber mills, and fish-sauce factories.
Centred in an apple-, peand-, apricot-growingwing area, the city depends economically on tourism, fruit canning and packing, lumber products, construction, transport and storage, livestock raising, and the manufacture of mobile prefabricated houses.
Lumbering, dairying, fruit growing, hunting, fishing, and tourism are the main regional economic activities.
The Yeppoon district is given to agriculture, lumbering, and fruit growing.
By the turn of the century, South Haven and many of its neighboring lumber-, fruit- and fur-trading towns had become major tourist destinations, filled with summer resorts, lake cottages, pavilions, casinos, theaters and opera houses.
