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Kiwifruit is just too valuable not to be picked and despite the challenges of labour and weather, it will be picked.

New Zealanders are being offered a ‘living wage’ of $22.10/hour to pick and pack kiwifruit this season.

New Zealand’s 2021 kiwifruit harvest has kicked off with the commercial crop being picked this morning in Gisborne and more kiwifruit to be picked across New Zealand over the coming days.

New Zealand Kiwifruit Growers Inc. (NZKGI), the industry body which advocates for 2,800 growers, is encouraging its members to pitch in and donate to the most vulnerable through The Foodbank Project.

About 250 new employees have already bolstered the kiwifruit industry’s worker shortage.

Kiwifruit orchards will be hives of activity over the next three months as the 2019 harvest gets underway.

Wait and see is the watchword on the possibility of a labour shortage in the kiwifruit harvest which began last week in Gisborne and western Bay of Plenty.

NZ Kiwifruit Growers (NZKGI) is creating a new role of labour coordinator as it envisages another seasonal labour shortage this year.

Nikki Johnson will move from the citrus industry to kiwifruit when she takes over as chief executive New Zealand Kiwifruit Growers Inc (NZKGI) in April.