Climate change experiment
Australia grows citrus in Pakistan
They are cultivating the same varieties of citrus they grown at home in the extreme climate of Pakistan. In Pakistan, during the main growing season, the temperatures are over 40 degrees for three months and there is no access to reliable irrigation.
There is a group of citrus industry representatives from Pakistan currently touring Australia to see how they may improve their industry back home, but Dr Tahir Khurshid, from the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, says that the exchange of knowledge goes both ways.
"We are sending all those mandarins and citrus varieties to see that how they can survive in Pakistani heat in the terms of climate change, and it will be the benefit, the information that they are going to bring back to Australia."
Source: www.abc.net.au
