NZ pip and kiwifruit hurt by weather and covid disruptions

NZ pip and kiwifruit hurt by weather and covid disruptions
Labour shortages affected the harvesting of apple crops. (Image: File)
Rebecca Howard
Weather and covid-19 are taking a bite out of New Zealand’s pip and kiwifruit harvests.  New Zealand Apples and Pears (NZAPI) lowered its forecast for the 2022 harvest by 12% to 20.3 million tray carton equivalents. It had previously expected 23.2m TCEs and said the new forecast meant export earnings would be about $105m lower than it had expected.Kiwifruit has also been hit, although the harvest is still under way. Seeka said NZ-wide the SunGold kiwifruit crop is now estimated to be 103.3m trays, a reduction of 9.7% on prior fo...

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