"raising fruit" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the cultivation and growth of fruits. Example: The local farmers are known for their expertise in raising fruit, producing some of the juiciest and most flavorful apples and peaches in the region.
Kingsolver and her husband, Steven L. Hopp, a biologist who teaches environmental studies, had been raising fruit and vegetables at Hopp's farm every summer since they met.
Some of the islands in the eastern part of the lake are traditionally famous Daoist and Buddhist religious sites, and several thousand people live on them, raising fruit and fishing in the lake.
Bob Goldsmith, 63, a retired Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who lives in Calabasas, Calif., began raising fruit in his backyard in 1976 as "an escape from working in a teeming ghetto or a jail".
He lamented that large, outdoor farms, due to climate change and pollution, have become unsustainable, whether they're raising fruit in tropical climes and shipping it to cold weather states, or cultivating fish in the oil-polluted waterways of Louisiana.
You work in a medical lab, raising fruit flies to be used in scientific experiments.
More and more people in New York and elsewhere are raising fruits and vegetables not just to feed their families but to sell to people on their block.
Ms. Perenyi was devoted to raising fruits and vegetables as well as flowers, and her essays are full of trenchant observations on the culture of everything from garlic to gooseberries.
But more and more New Yorkers like the Wilkses are raising fruits and vegetables, and not just to feed their families but to sell to people on their block.
Communities are raising fruits and vegetables in places as varied as vacant lots, backyards and such public properties as vacant fields, schoolyards, parks, utility rights-of-way and even the rooftops of public buildings.
His father's family raised fruit in what was then the British protectorate of Palestine.
The treatment that raises fruit temperature from 19 to 48 °C by RF heating in saline water and held then for 15 min in 48 °C hot water would meet the quarantine security without impairing the quality of the treated oranges.
