Rediscovering antique apples using modern cultivation methods are “bringing their history and flavour back to life,” she said.
The pilot scheme will test whether the long-lost varieties “can thrive in commercial fruit growing under today’s conditions”.
Experts fromenvironmentalist NGO, Arche Noah (Noah’s Ark), were enlisted to identify kinds of heritage apples that best lend themselves to modern large-scale cultivation methods.
The team will be putting the new-old apples to the test in terms of taste, growth performance, susceptibility to disease and shelf life.