

Growing citrus on your whenua
Citrus wants warmth and a lot of rain, so the worked example in this factsheet is a Northland orchard. It covers what the trees need from the land, planning and planting an orchard, pest control and harvest.
It then gives running costs, expected yields, where the fruit is sold and what an orchard can return, and the food safety, freshwater, levy and certification requirements.
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