Testing soil pH key to recovering from the summer downpours

摘要

Growers are being urged to carry out rigorous and systematic pH soil testing to assess the full effect of the torrential downpours across the country this summer. The wet weather has also hampered the lime sector by affecting production. R and T Liming's John Prentis is adamant that the situation is a practical one and can be salvaged. However, at the beginning of August he said that his company had only been able to produce about l,000t of the 40,000t of lime it had available at the same time last year.