Wine Growing

Domestic market is also substantial with about 60 million litres/year consumed locally. Of the 35,000 ha viticulture land in NZ, 2/3 is from Marlborough.

November 19, 2014

Wine Growing Continued

Viticulture also proved to be a high revenue earner on a land area basis. Just by extrapolating the 2013 export and local wine consumption it could be estimated that viticulture revenue per hectare was $45,000. Export alone return per ha was $34,000.

November 19, 2014

Wastewater Management

Depending on the scale and type of the activity vineyards are likely to generate wastewater from wine production, café and septic tanks.

November 19, 2014

Plant Residue Management

Given pruning is an integral activity within vineyard 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 viticulture 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 any previous non-compliance and to take measures to prevent it in future. Apart from causing harm to the environment,