date:Feb 06, 2013
After its tentative start, the apple industry will be looking to send more apples to Australia this year.
Australia was finally re-opened to New Zealand apples in 2011, ending a 90-year ban.
But only small volumes of apples have been sent there in the past two seasons, as exporters and pack houses here struggled with very demanding quarantine conditions and the rejection of some early consignments.
However, Pipfruit New Zealand services manager Gary Jones says it hopes to start to build up ex