Peach Production In Nepal
Transportation
The trees should be ordered a least one year before the orchard is to be started (Crassweller et al. n.d.). So when the trees are ready to be sent to Nepal a few things need to be considered. First, sending them by plane will be much faster and since the trees should be planted sooner rather than later that faster they get to their new home the better. The young trees also need to be kept in cold storage (but frost free) while being transported, as well; the roots need to be kept wet and can’t ever be allowed dry out (Keepers Nursery, n.d.).
The process would begin with the trees being picked up by a refrigerated truck from
Green Barn Farms, and then Silver Creek Nursery. From there on to Toronto International
Airport. A refrigerated Ryder truck can be rented from Toronto for a day and it would cost
189.95 dollars Canadian (Ryder, n.d.). The truck would be driven from Toronto, ON to
Notre-Dame-de-l’île-Perrot, QC, then to Wellesley, ON then to the Toronto airport in about
16 hours total; so one-day rental would be enough. Once at the airport, A1 Freight
Forwarding would be used to fly the trees to Kathmandu Nepal, it would cost approximately
300 hundred Canadian dollars (A1 Freight Forwarding, n.d.). The flight would take about
19 and a half hours from airport to airport so before the fight the tree’s roots should be
soaked and kept in the coldest area possible. When the shipment arrives at Tribhuvan
International Airport, in Kathmandu, Nepal they then need to be trucked to the location for
the orchard as quickly as possible so they have the greatest chance at survival.
