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Beware the the ‘bok choy effect’.

Zespri officially opened its Middle East office in Dubai earlier this week to manage its growing sales and marketing programmes in this region and other developing markets.

The 2017 New Zealand kiwifruit season is underway with the first ship, the Asian Adonis, set to sail to Shanghai this week with 840,000 trays of Zespri SunGold Kiwifruit.

Zespri chief executive Lain Jager has warned against getting carried away with the current good times in the kiwifruit sector.

The concept of sustainability needs to be more carefully defined, says Zespri’s chief operating officer Simon Limmer.

This week marks a milestone with the kiwifruit industry coming together to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Zespri brand.

Zespri will allocate an additional 1,800 hectares of European SunGold licence over the next three years, doubling production of the proprietary kiwifruit variety in Europe.

The first year Bay of Plenty Trevelyans Pack and Cool store introduced ‘lean manufacturing’ it saved the company about $340,000, says managing director James Trevelyan.

Another year has almost passed us by – again – and it is time for the annual review of 2016 in the primary sector as seen by the Rural News editorial team.

Another year has almost passed us by – again – and it is time for the annual review of 2016 in the primary sector as seen by the Rural News editorial team.