Horticulture

Former RNZ Rural News reporter Alexa Cook is travelling through Europe with her boyfriend. She tells Cosmo about the farming observations she has made in Portugal and southern Spain.

A new research project that's underway has the potential to give New Zealand's horticultural industry a bumper crop.

The Ministry for Primary Industries is seizing plant material from five apple and stone fruit nurseries across the country, as a precautionary measure against biosecurity risks.

Phil Tregidga's family pioneered hydroponic growing in New Zealand. Almost four decades later he's still using the hydroponic system to grow all manner of herbs and vegetables with his wife Jenny and…

Steve Moffatt's parents were the first commercial rose growers in New Zealand, starting in 1949. Business has blossomed since Steve joined in 1972, and now they're cutting more than 3 million stems a…

One of Horowhenua's wettest winters has left commercial vegetable growers with waterlogged soil and failed crops.

Sue Deadman has been growing vegetables for 30 years, specialising in carrots for more than 20. You can taste the difference between a sweet Ohakune carrot and those grown elsewhere in NZ, she says.

More data is needed before a blanket ban on the insecticides is considered in New Zealand, experts say.

Extremely wet conditions have made it very difficult to grow vegetables in the past few weeks, especially leafy greens, Horticulture New Zealand says.

Fields around Pukekohe are now striped with rows of onions, gently curing in the sun. They'll soon be heading into the packhouse where they'll be topped and tailed, graded and bagged for export.

A feijoa grower has found the crop-destroying guava moth breeding in the plant's flowers, which damages the fruit's development.

A new report shows that the Horticulture Industry has had a 40 percent growth in export earnings in just two years.

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