The pipfruit industry has begun a five-year project to find new and more effective ways to control bronze beetle. The native beetle chews through growing fruitlets leaving apples unsuitable for ...

The pipfruit industry has begun a five-year project to find new and more effective ways to control bronze beetle. The nativ Apples and Pears New Zealand is investing $598,370 into a five-year project ...

It is being backed by $888,630 of funding from the Ministry for Primary Industries' Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures Fund. Apples and Pears research and development manager Rachel Kilmister said ...

which will adversely impact the quality of fruitlets,” it said. On exports, the report said increasing demand, particularly from India, Bangladesh, Germany, Iran and the Philippines, was ...

We describe an intelligent bagging end-effector for pears, which employs the Yolov8 algorithm for fruitlets detection and the Semi-Global Block Matching (SGBM) algorithm to acquire three-dimensional ...