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Delivery partners Partnership opportunities Optimising avocado yield with region-specific canopy management: insights from light interception and canopy modelling

Optimising avocado yield with region-specific canopy management: insights from light interception and canopy modelling

Closing date: February 7, 2025

Request for Proposal

Hort Innovation is seeking a suitably qualified, experienced and capable delivery partner for the project: Optimising avocado yield with region-specific canopy management: insights from light interception and canopy modelling (AV24011).

The overall objective of the services are to undertake a literature review centering on developing a light interception models, synthesising current knowledge of computer generated light interception and canopy models in avocado, as well as other perennial tree crops, as a key validation step for the next phase of a larger project: creating a canopy and light interception model for avocado, that is able to generate region-specific pruning recommendations to maximise avocado yields through canopy management.

Hort Innovation has prepared a Request for Proposal (RFP) document that provides background information, outlines the scope of services, the procurement process and the information required from interested parties.

The RFP may be downloaded from www.tenders.net (you will need to be a member of tenders.net to access this information).

The closing date for responses is February 7, 2025 at 3:00PM (AEDT).