In the southern hemisphere, New Zealand is picking the kiwi fruit harvest next month, and the country's kiwi is also very popular in China. But recently, the hurricane Gita in log in New Zealand on Tuesday, local time, while the kiwi giant jia pei (Zespri) in the official document issued yesterday, points out that good organization is located in the South Island, South Island) of kiwi fruit orchards was also because of the storm and flood, but better organization also points out that this year's green fruit kiwi and sunshine kingo (SunGold) varieties yield should be still more high than last season.
Reported that hurricane Gita is the local time in New Zealand on Tuesday, causing flooding, serious damage to roads, the country's famous tourist resort Golden Bay (Golden Bay) on the thousands of people were stranded on the island. The local government is in the south Island of Nelson (Nelson), Tasman (Tasman), Selma (Selywn), west coast (Westland), and is located in the North Island (North Island) New Plymouth (New Plymouth) declared a state of emergency.
Despite the severe weather conditions, the impact on the country's kiwi industry appears to be relatively mild.
Jia pei chief planting and union officials Dave Courtney (Dave Courtney) in issued a statement saying: "we are aware that in the southern half of the island of tile card (Riwaka) around some isolated orchard flooding event happened, may affect the low hanging fruit and vegetable. A packaging plant in the area was also affected by the flooding. Jia pei is working closely with these growers to help and support them according to their needs.
According to courteney, the sunshine golden fruit and kiwi fruit in the southern half of the island accounted for about 4 percent of the total sunshine golden fruit kiwi. But he also said that as New Zealand national next month will be for kiwi fruit picking season, jia pei is also expected to this season, the total amount of New Zealand kiwi will be higher than last year's 123 million tray. "Kiwi fruit production is expected to increase this quarter as production declines due to seasonal factors in the previous season," courtney said. As the newly grafted kiwi tree reaches maturity, the yield of the sun's golden fruit will continue to increase by about 7 million to 10 million pallets per year.