Scientists testing which crops could flourish in silt
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English - February 28, 2024 19:50 - 3 minutes - 3.16 MB - ★★★★ - 11 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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With silt suffocating productive land across Hawke's Bay after Cyclone Gabrielle, horticulturalists are grappling with growing in the new conditions.
But Plant and Food Research is on a mission to help them find out what crops could, in fact, flourish, helping their businesses do the same.
Lauren Crimp visited its testing ground.