Foreign Journalists Pour In For Kiwifruit Centenary
The 92 journalists, including 12 film crews, are from China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Hong Kong, plus a small contingent from Mexico, and will be in Tauranga from May 10 to 15 to take in all aspects of the kiwifruit industry. Zespri ... [... more]
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Guiding Light Of Kiwifruit Sector Leaves Zespri
But about 1740 kiwifruit orchardists individually invested in the export financier in 1999, which floated with an initial allocation of shares totalling $5 million. They expected it would underwrite the business risk on Zespri International's ... [... more]
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Kiwifruit Growers Switch To Sprays For Frost
This year many of the orchardists have opted for a water system. Chris Dunstan, a gold kiwifruit grower who has more than 40ha of kiwifruit, said water meant that orchards did not need to rely on a warm layer of air - which might not be there - ... [... more]
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Kiwifruit Study Shows The Fruit Powers The Bay Of Plenty
Kiwifruit pioneer Walter Bayliss, who may be the only person to grow kiwifruit continuously for more than 50 years, said he was shocked to hear just how crucial the industry had become to the Bay - particularly to the Western Bay, where an ... [... more]
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Nz Dollar Cuts Higher Returns For Kiwifruit
> WELLINGTON 18/12/2003 - Kiwifruit grower returns jumped 27 percent per tray last year and early season estimates indicate that orchard gate returns will rise again in the year ending March 2004, according to the latest MAF Situation and Outlook ... [... more]
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Bunfight Over Insurance Costs Of Rotting Kiwifruit
A Kiwifruit Growers' Inc report on the fruit losses has noted there was no incentive provided for green kiwifruit to be harvested at the correct level of ripeness for successful shipping, and in many cases harvesting and other decisions were ... [... more]
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Last Of Season's Kiwifruit Shipped Out
> WELLINGTON 11/11/2005 - The last of this season's 30 charter ship of New Zealand kiwifruit left Tauranga today for Japan and Korea. A record 80,000 pallets of kiwifruit have been sent to Japan and Korea since the season began in March. The ... [... more]
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Benefits Of Anthocyanins In Red-Fleshed Kiwifruit
Most commercial kiwifruit are green-fleshed cultivars bred from the species Actinidia deliciosa, or yellow-fleshed and bred from A. chinensis. But red-fleshed forms of A. chinensis have been found in China's Hubei and Henan provinces, and a ... [... more]
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10 Millionth Tray Of Kiwifruit For Seeka
Mr MacLoughlin's father, Jim MacLoughlin, was one of the first to plant kiwifruit in Number 3 Road at Te Puke in the 1930s, and was the first to export kiwifruit to England in 1952. He also presented the then minister of agriculture, Duncan ... [... more]
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Production Of Hairless Kiwifruit Set To Soar
The berries weigh from 5g to 20g - about the size and texture of a dessert grape - with a smooth, edible skin. They turn dark green and soften slightly when ripe. Unlike the high-priced gold kiwifruit, grown on Actinidia chinensis vines, the ... [... more]
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Red-Fleshed Kiwifruit Goes On Sale In Britain
Crosses with the ordinary green kiwifruit, Actinidia deliciosa, have produced hybrids with comparatively large fruit with a green hairless skin, and crosses with Actinidia melanandra produced large crops of small but very sweet fruit with very ... [... more]
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Gold Kiwifruit Put Into Japan For Golden Week
Zespri will publish its first seasonal returns forecast in August, but last month warned the end of six seasons of record returns was in sight for kiwifruit growers, who were advised to cut back their price estimates for this season by $1 a tray, ... [... more]
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