date:May 08, 2019
Soft fruit growers in the UK look set to benefit from new commercial-scale water saving research which is being developed to improve precision irrigation and fertigation techniques. Farm levy board AHDB is to co-fund the Water Efficient Technologies (WET) Centre, which aims to accelerate the uptake of innovation and research.
AHDB says irrigation techniques partly developed by the WET Centre have already reduced water and fertiliser use by 30% while maintaining and even improving fruit yields a