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For Kiwifruit growers globally, climate change is the number one issue.

As 2023’s harvest of kiwifruit largely ends, New Zealand’s largest horticultural export is now being shipped to overseas markets.

A raft of problems, including quality issues, poor pollination, and bad weather, has led to what has been described as one of the most financially unrewarding kiwifruit harvests in recent memory.

For kiwifruit growers in parts of the upper North Island it was a case of watching small streams suddenly becoming raging rivers, with water rising two or three metres high and engulfing entire orchards.

The country's green and organic green kiwifruit growers are facing very low returns for the 2022 season and – in some cases – no income at all for the 2023 season.

Many kiwifruit growers in Bay of Plenty face an uncertain future as they wait to see the final effects of last month’s disastrous frost.

New Zealand Kiwifruit Growers Incorporated (NZKGI) will appeal a recent High Court decision that will allow a licence to grow SunGold Kiwifruit to be included in the value of land, and, therefore, growers’ property rates.

With almost all 2,900 orchards picked, the country's kiwifruit harvest is now largely complete, according to the New Zealand Kiwifruit Growers Incorporated (NZKGI).

The 2022 harvest of New Zealand kiwifruit is now largely complete with almost all 2,800 growers’ orchards from Kerikeri to Motueka picked for consumers.

The labour shortage in the kiwifruit industry is crying out for a solution, according to the organisation that represents New Zealand kiwifruit growers.