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Article: Making lychee and longan harvests predictable.
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- M2 Presswire
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- September 22, 2004
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M2 PRESSWIRE-22 September 2004-US ARS: Making lychee and longan harvests predictable(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Beneath the thin, crisp peel of an exotic tropical lychee, sweet, delicious fruit is ready to eat. To growers in Hawaii, however, lychee and its smaller cousin, longan, present a problem. Harvests are unpredictable, yielding too much fruit one year and too little the next.
Studies led by Agricultural Research Service horticulturist Tracie Matsumoto at the agency's U.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center in Hilo, on Hawaii Island, may resolve the problem. That would be a boon not only for Hawaii's growers, ...