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Story: Soils and regional land use

Heretaunga orchards

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Heretaunga orchards

The Heretaunga Plains is one of the main orcharding areas in New Zealand, but needs regular irrigation to support commercial crops.

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Allan Gillingham, Soils and regional land use – Lower North Island, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17101/heretaunga-orchards (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Allan Gillingham, published 1 March 2009.