Grant Award View - GA5358

This innovative, ultra-high-density cherry orchard with new cherry varieties adds more value to precious resources, water, land and labour while boosting employment. A $650,000 investment will see 3.02ha prepared with state-of-the-art irrigation. Custom-made trellis will help quadruple yield and support rain covers to stop rain damage which can wipe out entire crops. Over 12,000 trees will be planted, trained and pruned into trellised hedges. Licensed to TBO in Australia 6 varieties with superior attributes will be harvested over 6 weeks. Each grant dollar should create $1.50+ in local employment and business income for 2 years, and in full production, $3/year in export-led income, downstream employment and investment.