Kiwifruit growers give mandate, total grower control still some way off

Kiwifruit growers give mandate, total grower control still some way off
By Fiona Rotherham March 24 (BusinessDesk) - Interim results show more than 90 percent of New Zealand kiwifruit growers support a new blueprint for the industry though one grower, who this month raised concerns about a Zespri junket for international visitors, claims it doesn’t fix the problem it set out to solve. The Kiwfruit Industry Strategy Project put seven questions to growers to a vote relating to the long-term grower ownership, funding and structure of the $1.3 billion industry, which enjoys a legislated monopoly on export sales b...