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OPINION: Sour taste Your old mate suggests the country’s struggling kiwifruit growers will find the latest pay increases to executives at Zespri very hard to swallow.

OPINION: Think co-operatives and some of our biggest agribusiness companies – Fonterra, Zespri, Alliance Group, Silver Fern Farms, Farmlands, LIC, Ballance, Ravensdown and Tatua – come to mind.

Zespri's latest kiwifruit to hit overseas and domestic markets, RubyRed, has become the beacon that lights up the start of the kiwifruit season.

Kiwifruit growers seem to have gotten the message from Zespri to focus on the quality of the fruit coming off the vines this year.

No surprises, it's been a bad year for the kiwifruit sector with the final numbers recently released by Zespri.

Zespri chief executive Dan Mathieson says its 2022/23 financial results, released yesterday, reflect a challenging period for the kiwifruit industry.

As expected, the volume of kiwifruit for the 2023 growing season is down – mainly due to the weather.

Zespri says the challenging weather events that have dominated the 2023 growing season have contributed to a lower-than-expected crop this season.

Zespri chief executive Dan Mathieson says when he was at a food fair in Germany recently, buyers of NZ kiwifruit raised the issue of quality with him.

The quality of kiwifruit for the coming season is looking good.