Fruit Growing

Returns per land area is very high from growing commercial fruits. For example from export alone the revenue on an area basis was $71800/ha for kiwifruit and $48,400/ha for apple and pears.

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November 19, 2014

Fruit Growing Continued

Kiwifruit, apple, avocado, berries, summer fruits and citrus are the key fruits produced for export by the New Zealand fruit growers. Of the exported fruits, kiwifruit export contribution alone is in excess of 50%.

November 19, 2014

Plant Residue Management

Given pruning is an integral activity within orchard management, generation of plant residues is inevitable. Burning plant residues may appear to be the most straight forward way of dealing with plant residues. However, burning also has few problems to deal with.

November 23, 2014

RMA Compliance

Understanding your compliance requirements at all levels of orchard operation is the first step towards the Resource Management Act (RMA) compliance.

November 23, 2014

Consequences of not complying

While bearing up with the negative consequences the key is to not to repeat previous non-compliance and to take measures to prevent it in future. Apart from causing harm to the environment,