Field day on pruning of fruit trees

On 23.03.2017 Tsirani Aygi LLC and Shen NGO jointly conducted at Shenik orchard a field day on pruning of fruit trees for the members of Organic Fruit Producers Marketing Cooperative as well as farmers from neighboring 4 communities. This event was organised within OASI supported "Expansion of Organic Fruit Production Through Upgrading the Organic Orchard Management and Streamlining Horticulturist Farmers into Organic Agriculture Cooperative" project. The attendees learnt the peculiarities and techniques of pruning apricot, apple, peach and plum trees as well as vines. Experienced agronomists of Shen NGO presented the pruning techniques, answered the questions of attendees as well as let the farmers to do test pruning by themselves. The event attended totally 30 participants who received also handouts on pruning techniques and features of organic orchard cultivation methods.