Hold your boomerangs! I DID NOT come up with that title!

http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201003/s2837413.htm

Plant mandarins, because Aussies are too lazy to peel oranges

Friday, 05/03/2010

Citrus growers are being warned that growing traditional navel oranges may not be the best way to make money in the next few years.

Marketing manager of Citrus Australia, Andrew Harty, says that consumers want more easy-peel fruit, like mandarins.

He says that it's a big choice to swap varieties, but it's something that growers need to think about.

"Making an investment in an orchard is a long term commitment," he says.

"It's very capital intensive, and of course the lifespan of an orchard can be 20 to 30 years.

"So there's a limited amount of times you can afford to pull out and replace your orchard.

"It has to be in the ground for a number of years to actually make it worthwhile."

I guess if you keep telling the public that they want easy peel, seedless mandarins, they will start to think so too ?
Oranges are of course mainly consumed as packaged juice, so he may be correct to some degree.