Kiwifruit flower pollination : wind pollination efficiencies and sprayer jet applications
There has been a move in the kiwifruit industry to pollinate by machine, allowing orchardists flexibility in timing, and other advantages. The traditional pollinators, bees, are unreliable and are susceptible to diseases such as the varroa mite. No measurements have been done on the efficiency of si...
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University of Canterbury. Chemical and Process Engineering
2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6535 |