Cry about barren conditions for producing fruit (9)
I believe the answer is:
cranberry
'fruit' is the definition.
(cranberry is a kind of fruit)
'cry about barren conditions' is the wordplay.
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'conditions' indicates an anagram (letters must be in a new condition).
'barren' is an anagram of 'anberr'.
'cry' going around 'anberr' is 'CRANBERRY'.
'for producing' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cranberry that I've seen before include "Traditional sauce to go with turkey" , "Red fruit in a Christmas sauce" , "Sauce ingredient" , "The sauce for Christmas turkey" , "Shrub with red fruit" .)