Hail ball against hail… They protect their fruits from hail with the developed device With the hail repellent “hail ball”, producers are planning to protect their products from the damages of hailYOZGAT – Kabalı Fruit, one of Turkey’s largest orchards, located in Kadışehri district of Yozgat…

Full ball against hail… They protect their fruits from hail with the developed device

With the anti-hail “hail ball”, manufacturers plan to protect their products from the damage of the hail.

YOZGAT – The products in the Kabalı Orchard, one of the largest orchards in Turkey, located in the Kadışehri district of Yozgat, are protected from the damages caused by the hail. While the hail cannon foretells the approaching hail, the wave it emits allows the hail to fall as rain or snow.

Village residents living in Kabalı village in Kadışehri district of Yozgat united their fields and removed the borders with the project they put into practice 8 years ago and established apple, peach and cherry orchards on a 5,000-decare land. The huge orchard, created with the cooperation of the public, private sector and citizens, was leased to a company. Village residents, men, women and children, while working in this garden, both received the rent of their fields and started to work under insurance. When the fruit trees started to produce fruit, it fell to the company officials to protect the Kabalı Orchard, which attracted attention, against natural disasters and to get the best product with the least damage. Fahrettin Aksakal, who made a research on the fact that the fruits were greatly damaged by the hail rain at harvest time, decided to set up the hail ball in their garden. Aksakal, who had the hail ball imported from Europe installed in his gardens, got a positive result and decided to contact a company that produces hail balls and have 3 more hail balls put in their garden. Especially in the harvest season, the approaching hail clouds give an early warning to the hail machine and the machine works by itself. In this way, the hail ball, which creates a sound wave, allows the hailstones to fall as rain and snow and prevents the fruits from being damaged.

Explaining that they imported a lot of balls as a result of their research 4 years ago and after seeing the benefit, they bought 3 more filled balls produced by a company, Aksakal said, “We buy full balls from the company. At the same time, another local company in Ankara is approaching us around our land. As an early warning system, it not only sends messages to our mobile phones and sends e-mails, but also sends messages to the full machines and ensures that the full machines operate automatically. Thus, when the hail machines we brought from Van and the early warning system offered by the Ankara company are combined, they are above the garden as a hail shield. It becomes a system that protects.”

Aksakal, who also gave information about the function of the hail cannon machine, said, “The hail cannon breaks up the falling hail with a special sound wave and falls on the ground as rain. Therefore, it actually turns a harmful disaster into a beneficial blessing. This year, hail has rained down on the villages around us. Unfortunately, there have been some damages. “Since we had only one full cannon at that time, there were minor damages in places beyond its capacity. In this way, we survived the hail with the least damage,” he said.