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The global Kiwifruit Vine Health/ZESPRI Psa Research and Development Programme, has been boosted with a significant sponsorship from leading rural bank, ANZ National.

Chinese pollen is the likely source of the Psa-V disease in New Zealand's kiwifruit, say a team of Otago biochemists working with the industry to unravel the disease.

THE ORGANISER of a kiwifruit growers' protest meeting met what appeared to be an orchestrated response to his initiative at Te Puke.

BANKS WILL need to support kiwifruit growers through a year to 18 months as they switch to Psa-V resistant varieties of gold kiwifruit, say growers representative Neil Trebilco.

ANGER AT Zespri marketing mistakes and Government responses to the Psa-V crisis reached boiling point last week with a grower-organised meeting at the Te Puke hall on Friday.

'UNITED WE stand' will be Neil Trebilco's theme as he takes on the daunting task of heading an industry group facing crisis. The Katikati grower was elected president of NZ Kiwifruit Growers Inc in December, taking over from Peter Ombler.

FEDERATED FARMERS says it hopes to see “some rigour” applied to the Minister for Primary Industries’ independent review of kiwifruit pollen import rules and processes.

ABOVE AVERAGE production and prices bode well for pastoral agriculture in 2011/12, says MAF on releasing its half year update of its annual Situation and Outlook for New Zealand Agriculture and Forestry (SONZAF) report.

THE PROPOSED merger between kiwifruit companies Satara and Seeka will be voted on by Satara shareholders this week.