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Zespri smashes records with kiwifruit sales

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Newstalk ZB staff ,
Publish Date
Thu, 26 May 2016, 9:40AM
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Zespri smashes records with kiwifruit sales

Author
Newstalk ZB staff ,
Publish Date
Thu, 26 May 2016, 9:40AM

Records have been smashed all over the kiwifruit sector with Zespri recording its largest total return to growers. 

Zespri's also recorded its highest green return per hectare and record sales volumes for both green and sungold kiwifruit.

General manager and grower at Zespri, David Courtney, told Mike Hosking we're both selling more, and growing more kiwifruit.

"This year we returned about 1.1 billion back to those communities where kiwifruit is grown. Places like Te Puke, Katikati, Opotiki, Whakatane."

Mr Courtney said talk that PSA would spell the doom of the industry has come to nothing.

"As the industry got their head around how to manage it, as they chose a recovery pathway to come out of it which was introducing this new gold variety, the industry has recovered pretty quickly actually from that."

 

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