Friday, 17 February 2012 15:45

Big jump in infected orchards

Written by Pamela Tipa

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Fifty-three new orchards were reported as infected with Psa –V in the past week, a big jump from just five new infections for the week before.

The weekly report from Kiwifruit Vine Health says there are now 1030 orchards infected, which is 31% of all New Zealand kiwifruit orchards and 39% of all orchard hectarage.

The big increase this week in new Psa-V results reflects notifications recently reported by pack-houses from monitoring results collated over several weeks.

The new Psa-V identifications include 45 orchards in the Te Puke region and eight in the Tauranga region. The total number of orchards identified with Psa-V is 1030.

Psa-V has been found on Bay of Plenty orchards in the following areas: Te Puke (824); Tauranga (97); Whakatane (47); Opotiki (30); Katikati (13); Waihi (14); as well as in South Auckland on five orchards in Franklin. See www.kvh.org.nz/statistics.

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