Air transport is increasingly used to export fruit and vegetables to countries where they cannot be grown or are out of season. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this?

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Air transport is increasingly used to export fruit and vegetables to countries where they cannot be grown or are out of season.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of this?

Nowadays, some countries have been increasing the use of airplanes to import produce, which are out of season or impossible to grow. While diversity of fruit and vegetables is the biggest benefit, the stress on the environment produced by airplanes is an important disadvantage.

One evident benefit to importing fruit and vegetables from other countries is the wide range of products that can be found throughout the year. Colder countries in parts of Northern Europe and North America are now able to sample the delights of the tropics in winter, rather than wait until the summer months. To illustrate, in my local supermarket in Ireland, it is possible to see an extensive variety of exotic products, such as avocados or watermelons, regardless of the time of year.

On the other hand, there are some disadvantages to transporting these products by airplane. Airplanes produce a huge amount of carbon dioxide, which causes a lot of pollution in the atmosphere and leads to global warming. For example, it is estimated by Green Peace that up to 13,000 tons of CO2 is released into the atmosphere every year by planes carrying foodstuffs from tropical countries. This issue is compounded when you consider that the food needs to be transported from the airport to the shops by trucks, thus increasing the carbon footprint even further.

In conclusion, importing produce from overseas can be very advantageous if it allows people to eat different products, however, it is important to pay attention to the costs in terms of the environment that transport can cause.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, so, thus, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 24.0651302605 50% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1318.0 1615.20841683 82% => OK
No of words: 258.0 315.596192385 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10852713178 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00778971557 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9101584655 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 176.041082164 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.608527131783 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 406.8 506.74238477 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 16.0721442886 62% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 34.528828535 49.4020404114 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.8 106.682146367 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8 20.7667163134 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.4 7.06120827912 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.186402153336 0.244688304435 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0674807528605 0.084324248473 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0577506533618 0.0667982634062 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103249774391 0.151304729494 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0382439838184 0.056905535591 67% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 50.2224549098 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.3001002004 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.98 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 78.4519038076 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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