Nelson kiwifruit crop trebles
PA Nelson Nelson’s latest kiwifruit crop is more than three times the size of last season’s, said a spokesman for the export division of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation, Mr Stuart Abbott.
The crop would be about 750,000 trays. Last season’s crop was 228,000 trays. A week before harvesting began this season growers were estimating a crop of 280,000. This grew to about 500,000 when picking began on May 1 and was updated again this week. The managing-director of the grower-owned Motueka Cold Storage, Ltd, Mr Bert Skillicorn, said that growers miscalculated the amount of fruit because of the size of
individual fruit was larger this year. Where 46 pieces of fruit a tray was normal last season, this year growers were getting only 36. Export pack-outs were much higher this year, ranging from 85 to 95 per cent of the crop, compared with 60 per cent last year. With about half of the crop in storage some growers had run out of wooden packing trays and were bringing them from the North Island, said the chairman of the Nelson Kiwifruit Growers’ Association, Mr John Palmer. A Nelson timber company was busy cutting timber for an additional 150,000 trays, he said.
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