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Improving the water use efficiency of horticultural crops (pdf 215K)

A research project to further work that found by maintaining wet and dry areas in the grapevine rootzone it was possible to achieve considerable savings in irrigation input with no penalty in terms of crop yield or quality.

The technique is called partial rootzone drying (PRD) which has commercial plantings in Australia and overseas has implications for many types of fruit agriculture.

 

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