26 Sep 2024
The trial block, located about 50 kilometers from San Salvador de Jujuy, is in a region bordering Bolivia and at the same altitude as the Antofagasta region in Chile, and would provide a microclimate for the production of ultra-early stone fruits in an extreme production zone.
20 Sep 2024
A recent study conducted Ukraine focused on the influence that wood age has on key sweet cherry productivity parameters. The results showed that wood age is one of the main factors determining productivity: three-year-old wood sections showed the highest flower density.
20 Sep 2024
Leyton, when asked what technologies or practices he considers essential to mitigate the impact of frost, replied that ‘if water is available, it will be the best frost controller. It is difficult to have sufficient water availability at the time of early frosts'.
18 Sep 2024
Although this season we have seen fertility analyses with higher results compared to previous seasons - Patricio Morales reports - and with a good accumulation of winter chill hours, we must ensure optimal conditions at the time of flowering.
17 Sep 2024
According to an announcement by the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission, this annual effort aims to provide the industry with guidance for pest management decisions, considering maximum residue levels (MRLs) in some foreign markets.
06 Sep 2024
“This project aims to create a synergy between agricultural systems and photovoltaic systems,” says Victor Pizarro, project director. “The crop benefits because sunburn and excessive radiation are avoided; there’s also an increase in water efficiency".
06 Sep 2024
Depending on the severity of the deficiency, these nutrient deficiencies can reduce yield and fruit size. Severe deficiency can lead to the drying of shoots and even the death of the tree. Visual deficiency symptoms are similar for iron, zinc, and manganese.
04 Sep 2024
The objective of a Turkish research was to compare the performance of the cultivar ‘0900 Ziraat’ on two different rootstocks in terms of phenological characteristics, fruit quality, yield, harvest and pruning times, modelled with the SSA training system.
30 Aug 2024
ANA Chile® provides you with valuable videos with pruning guidelines by consultant Walter Masman. The videos present pruning guidelines for the production of Sweet Aryana® PA1UNIBO and Nimba both grafted on the Colt rootstock.
30 Aug 2024
In central Chile it is common for irrigation management to involve applying large amounts of water between flowering and harvest, but then to arbitrarily reduce the amount or frequency of irrigation after fruit harvest. The lack of data can lead to severely stressed plants.
