I have an orchard that produces fruit every year; is zakah (the obligatory alms) due on the fruit itself?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: I have an orchard that produces fruit every year; do I have to pay zakah on the fruit itself that this orchard produces?

Answer:
There is no zakah on the fruit itself; rather, zakah is due on its value. If you sell it and end up with a sum of money, and a lunar year passes over it, you pay zakah on it, provided the value reaches the nisab (the minimum threshold for zakah) and the hawl (a lunar year of possession) has elapsed. As for the fruit itself, there is no zakah on it in its own right. Zakah is due on grains and fruits; that is what zakah applies to. Yes.