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Export markets demand high-quality, residue-free fruit. We build crop protection programmes with current, approved active substances and apply them through integrated pest management. We share technical, practical and theoretical know-how with your team in the orchard.
Why does it matter?
Growing export-quality cherries is not only about large, firm fruit. Buyer markets check pesticide residues closely. Each market sets its own maximum residue limits (MRLs). If a single lot exceeds them, it can be rejected and the farm's reputation suffers.
At the same time, you cannot get quality fruit without controlling pests and diseases. The answer is not how much you spray, but when, with what and why. Residue-free fruit is the result of a planned crop protection approach.
Integrated pest management sits at the centre of this approach. It means monitoring pests and diseases regularly, respecting economic thresholds, using cultural measures and natural balance, and turning to chemical control only when needed, with the right product. This lowers spray costs, protects beneficial organisms and slows resistance. Above all, it makes residue risk manageable from the start.
Our process
- Orchard and market review: We look at the orchard's pest and disease history, the varieties and the target market for the fruit.
- Monitoring system: We set up monitoring with pheromone and coloured sticky traps, vinegar traps and regular orchard scouting.
- Spray programme: We build a programme with active substances registered in Türkiye and accepted in the target market, respecting pre-harvest intervals and MRLs.
- Application quality: We train your team in the field on correct rates, water volumes and calibrated equipment.
- Records and checks: We help you record every application and plan pre-harvest residue testing.
What do we assess?
- Cherry fruit fly (Rhagoletis cerasi): We track the start of flight with yellow sticky traps and time treatments to the fruit's susceptible stage.
- Spotted wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii): For this pest of ripening fruit, we plan vinegar-trap monitoring, orchard hygiene and timely harvest.
- Monilinia: Against blossom blight and brown rot, we focus on the critical bloom period and wet weather.
- Shot hole disease: We time protective treatments against leaf and fruit spots.
- Bacterial canker: We plan preventive measures and copper applications around leaf fall and pruning, when infection risk is high.
- Economic thresholds and treatment decisions
- Rotating modes of action for resistance management
- Pre-harvest intervals and the MRLs of the target market
- Selective treatments that protect beneficial insects
Crop protection cannot be separated from growing practice. Pruning, nutrition and irrigation also shape tree health and resistance to disease. An open canopy, a well-fed tree and correct irrigation reduce the need for sprays. That is why we build the programme with the whole orchard in view. We also schedule pre-harvest measures that affect rain cracking, fruit size and firmness in the same calendar, managing quality as a whole.
Who is it for?
It suits cherry and fruit growers who export or plan to, farms that have faced residue problems, and corporate farms that want to standardise crop protection. We give field teams hands-on training in monitoring, application and record keeping.
Registered active substances and market limits change over time. So we review the programme every season against current regulations and buyer requirements.
Frequently Asked Questions
In practice it means residues stay below the limits accepted by the target market. We achieve this with registered products, correct rates, respect for pre-harvest intervals and pre-harvest testing.
An MRL is the maximum residue limit allowed in a product. Each country or market sets its own limits. That is why we build the spray programme around the market the fruit is going to.
The aim is to remove unnecessary treatments. When decisions follow monitoring and economic thresholds, treatments hit the right timing and most orchards cut needless sprays.
The cherry fruit fly lays its eggs inside the fruit. Once larvae are inside, control becomes difficult. So we monitor flight with traps and time treatments to the adult period.