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Zespri says it’s excited about another strong season shaping up for the kiwifruit industry.

An aggregate 10% cash return during 2018-19 is shown in the first full year financial results of MyFarm’s horticultural and commercial rural property syndicates.

Overseas visitors are being offered temporary work visas to help pick kiwifruit in Bay of Plenty.

The country's largest kiwifruit and avocado packhouse operator EastPack Ltd doubled its net profit last year.

NZ kiwifruit will penetrate deeper into world markets as it heads for another bumper crop this year, says Zespri chief grower and alliances officer David Courtney.

Kiwifruit orchards will be hives of activity over the next three months as the 2019 harvest gets underway.

The kiwifruit variety SunGold is this season set to overtake the traditional green Haywards variety for the first time.

Wait and see is the watchword on the possibility of a labour shortage in the kiwifruit harvest which began last week in Gisborne and western Bay of Plenty.

Seeka is spending $20 million on building a packhouse, packing machine and coolstores at its new Northland facility over the next two years.

An anonymous group called Concerned Growers Collective is opposing two Zespri resolutions now before growers which the group claims would cause “irreparable damage” to the industry.