The Future Orchard (SS)
- Author
- The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited
- Published
- Thu 28 Jul 2022
- Episode Link
- https://www.plantandfood.com/en-nz/article/the-future-orchard
Improving efficiency of fruit production on the minimum amount of land while reducing inputs on the orchard is vital for the longevity and sustainability of the fruit tree industries around the world. Scientist and podcaster Rebecca Bloomer speaks to fruit crops physiology scientist, Ben van Hooijdonk about a new system called Future Orchard Production Systems or FOPS that fulfils many of these requirements with impressive yield results so far. Here is a short video explaining the FOPS system: https://youtu.be/4kGuMkHjS6E and this videos shows Ben recently harvesting fruit from our FOPS orchard: https://youtu.be/C4-eNrMFRzE
