
PERFECT POLLINATION ACHIEVEABLE WITH POLLENSMART
New Zealand horticultural icon T&G (originally Turners and Growers) has completed an on-orchard pollination trial using the PollenSmart artificial pollinator, with exciting results.
The PollenSmart, designed and engineered by Whakatane agricultural engineering firm The Wrangler, works by blowing pollen onto open kiwifruit flowers not once but four times, via a vacuum intake which recycles the fallen pollen.
T&G Kerikeri kiwifruit orchard manager Denis Barker said due to Psa