date:Mar 31, 2014
est up to 16 million trays of gold kiwifruit - which includes around 9 million trays of Zespri SunGold/Gold3 - and a total crop volume of all Zespri varieties of around 85 million trays of kiwifruit. The estimated gold volume is up from around 11 million trays harvested last season.
SunGold (Gold3) has been the cornerstone of the industrys recovery, replacing the more Psa-susceptible Gold (Hort16A) variety, with more than 4,000 hectares now licensed to grow in New Zealand. While we will never e