Smart water use in South Africa’s apple orchards
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has put together a team of scientists to study the water use of apple orchards in the Western Cape in order to determine how much water apple trees use in each growth cycle. The water use will be measured from the very start, from non-bearing young trees right up to fully matured apple trees that yield anything from 80 tons per hectare.
Agriorbit.com reports on one of the researchers, Zanele Ntshidi, who is doing her PhD through the University of the Western Cape. In the video below she explains how water use in orchards is measured.
