Orchards contrast with desert in the Casas Grandes area of Chihuahua. Mexico’s apple and peach industry appears to be rebounding after decades of difficulties and decline, says Dr. Terence Robinson, who thinks this might be tied to improvements in the Mexican economy in general. Agriculture in Mexico has been hit by a number of political and economic factors during the past century or so. In the 1920s and 1930s, as a result of the Mexican revolution, the government redistributed the land, breaking up large holdings and allowing no one person to own more than 100 hectares (250 acres) of farmland. […]