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New Zealand’s 2021 kiwifruit harvest has kicked off with the commercial crop being picked this morning in Gisborne and more kiwifruit to be picked across New Zealand over the coming days.

Zespri is reworking a proposal to seek approval from growers to conduct a trial to grow Zespri Gold 3 in China.

Zespri and Plant and Food Research are discussing forming a 50/50 joint venture to fast track the development of breeding new cultivars of kiwifruit.

A former Bay of Plenty kiwifruit labour contractor and its former owner have been ordered to pay $276,000 by the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) for exploiting six migrant workers.

The last of New Zealand kiwifruit industry’s 2020 crop has been shipped overseas, capping another strong season.

Twenty-one students from a class at Hutt Valley’s Rata Street school, a decile two school, were among two classes in the country singled out to receive a new pair of ASIC shoes each from Zespri.

There was an air of excitement in teacher Trish Hereaka’s classroom at morning playtime as Zespri staff set out lunchboxes and arranged the shoes that were to be given to all the class.

A brace of politicians recently hit Zespri’s Mount Maunganui headquarters to kickstart the already announced Agritech Industry Transformation Plan after a three-month delay due to Covid-19.

Fonterra directors have chosen former Zespri chairman Peter McBride as chairman-elect of the co-op.

Zespri returned almost $2 billion to New Zealand’s kiwifruit industry in the 2019/20 financial year.