Kanzi matures about the same time as Golden Delicious. The fruit is larger than Gala and stores well. Golden Delicious is the standard by which apple growers in the South Tyrol area of Italy measure new varieties, and few can match its productivity. The region has 8,000 growers with an average of fewer than six acres of orchard each. So when a grower decides to plant 3,000 trees, he or she is making a decision on 50 percent of the orchard for the next 15 years, Walter Guerra, pomologist with the Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry at Laimburg, said […]
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