Pear Production Systems for Future Climates (AP22002) – PIPS 4 Profit

The Pear Production Systems for Future Climates (AP22002) project is aiming to address challenges in pear production associated with temporal and spatial variation in crop load and fruit quality (size and colour) by:

Developing and testing profitable spatial and temporal management strategies that maximise quality for pear consumers, focusing on size and colour.
Investigating profitable crop load management strategies and technologies for pear production within the Australian environment.
Demonstrating the potential of pear orcharding evidenced-based sustainability performance measures, primarily focusing on water use efficiency.
Testing zonal management, thinning methods and robotic harvesting options to increase labour use efficiency in Australian pear orchards.

Find out more: https://apal.org.au/projects/ap22002/