Pollinating kiwifruit properly is important for yield security. Insufficient pollination of kiwifruit flowers has been linked to small and misshapen fruit that is not suitable for export markets and thus reduces returns to growers. A means of efficiently pollinating kiwifruit crops was required to allow more orchards to be pollinated during the short seasonal window. Spreading the pollen as a dry powder, as opposed to being mixed in a water solution, allows for bees to collect and transfer dry pollen that didn’t landed directly on the flowers’ stigma during application.

正確授粉獼猴桃對產(chǎn)量安全至關(guān)重要。獼猴桃花授粉不足與不適合出口市場的小而畸形的果實有關(guān)，從而降低了種植者的回報。需要一種有效為獼猴桃作物授粉的方法，以便在短暫的季節(jié)窗口內(nèi)為更多的果園授粉。將花粉以干粉形式傳播，而不是混合在水溶液中，使蜜蜂能夠收集和轉(zhuǎn)移在施用過程中沒有直接落在花朵柱頭上的干花粉。

THE CHALLENGE
To evenly distribute dry pollen throughout the canopy at a consistent and even rate.

挑戰(zhàn)
以一致和均勻的速度將干花粉均勻地分布在整個冠層中。

QuadDuster
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QuadDuster? is an assistive broad application kiwifruit pollination system. The CAD designed stainless steel volutes evenly distribute dry kiwifruit pollen into the flowering canopy in a very controlled way to help remove human variability and increase application efficiency, ultimately increasing flower pollination and crop yield.

QuadDuster?是一種輔助性的廣泛應(yīng)用獼猴桃授粉系統(tǒng)，是由pollenplus開發(fā)的。CAD設(shè)計的不銹鋼蝸殼以非?？煽氐姆绞綄⒏稍锏?span id="wse8kue" class='wp_keywordlink'>獼猴桃花粉均勻地分布到開花冠層中，以幫助消除人類變異性并提高應(yīng)用效率，最終提高花朵授粉和作物產(chǎn)量。

By November 2015 there were 20 Pollen Plus Quad Dusters in operation; pollinating over 2000Ha of orchards, approximately 25% of New Zealand’s Kiwifruit industry.

截至2015年11月，共有20臺Pollen Plus Quad除塵器投入運(yùn)行；為超過2000公頃的果園授粉，約占新西蘭獼猴桃產(chǎn)業(yè)的25%。