Horticulture prospects look bright
he SunGold kiwifruit licence tender round reflected the level of industry confidence in the fruit’s future with its offshore consumers. Read the full story here.
Continue readinghe SunGold kiwifruit licence tender round reflected the level of industry confidence in the fruit’s future with its offshore consumers. Read the full story here.
Continue readingHorticulture New Zealand says the findings of a Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) survey of the horticulture sector confirm that horticulture can fully support New Zealand’s post-Covid recovery. Read the full story here.
Continue readingNZ Fruits takes over newly refurbished coolstore facilities just in time for 2020 Kiwifruit season. Read the full story here.
Continue readingKiwifruit and apple croppers in New Zealand’s Gisborne region have been coping well when it comes to labour for picking fruit with some kiwifruit growers having already finished their harvests. NZ Fruits, which handles about half the region’s kiwifruit crop, had more than 60 percent of its crop picked. “We have adequate staff to meet our harvest needs,” said director
Continue readingThe NZ kiwifruit and apple industries are looking for New Zealanders to help fill labour shortages for this season’s harvest, caused in part by the Covid-19 outbreak. Read the full story here.
Continue readingThe picking of kiwifruit in Gisborne and the Bay of Plenty has heralded the beginning of the 2020 kiwifruit harvest. Read more here.
Continue readingThe New Zealand harvest of early varieties started in late January and they are now into the full harvest cycle. Read more here.
Continue readingIt’s time to start giving credit to the seasonal pickers, packers and pruners for the role they play in our economy, writes the University of Waikato’s John Gibson Read the full story here.
Continue readingIn October this year the Government announced a $940,000 investment into a two-year horticulture training programme run by Four Seasons in Gisborne. Read the full story here.
Continue readingVegetable growers have been told Overseer won’t work for them and farm environment plans are the best way to demonstrate good land management practice. Read the full story here.
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