Hello from Te Puke New Zealand the kiwifruit capital of the world
I'm Kathy Liu a Chinese, New Zealand
And I'm currently working as an analyst for Anagenix
Kiwi produce is a award-winning kiwi fruit specialist pack house pre packer and distribution company based in Te Puke, New Zealand
Here at Kiwi produce the gold kiwifruits for Anagenix Livaux powder are grown picked
Stored pack and will be manufactured
Join me as I explore this orchard and Kiwi Produce facilities and speak to Jeff Oliver the founder and CEO of
Kiwi Produce
Jeff it's such a beautiful day to be out on the orchard
Can you tell me a bit more about it and your history as a kiwifruit orchardist this is?
This is our Binner’s Road Orchard, which is both Green and Gold but right here
we're beside the Zespri gold block and that's two thirds of the orchard and it's a nine hectare orchard
So how did this Gold variety come about?
This is the Sun Gold G3, the Zespri Gold current variety.
It was developed by Plant and Food, or
what was Hort Research some eight nine years ago?
it's the second one and this one is a little bit more tolerant to PSA
so it's become very common around the world now and
Zespri is very very proud of it and is doing a great job with it and
You'll see up here the yield can be really high
But growers are encouraged to grow really top yield in terms of tonnage
because you won't get the taste with the dry matter
so there's a balance there and
The big
Achievement at the moment is to try and get really good tasting SunGold
and for that our growers paid handsomely.
Yeah, the fruit looks so delicious. I really want to try one
Well you could try but right now
These are rock-hard
So what happens from here is they go into a picking big and then and to trailer onto a track back to the pick house
And then they between the cold store in
The consumer offshore there is a conditioning process
and only then are they starting to soften for the consumer so that when they pick it up they're getting close ready to eat
Yeah that so now that's another month away
Yeah, oh, no. [Laughs]
When do you know the fruits are ready for picking
the industry has a
Standard which is called clearance to pick and for that a grower must have a Brix to a certain level
That's a sugar level it must have a dry matter
Which is independently tested
and it must have a minimum standard of colour when a grower has achieved it
Then it puts it up for a request and then it gets a clearance to pick.
Can you describe your relationship with Zespri as a kiwifruit orchardist? All kiwi fruit growers need to
market a kiwifruit through Zespri who have a
regulation and they export off to 130 countries
Zespri require
growers to grow to a certain standard
And it is it's a high level
And it's probably the highest level in the world and they do that by making sure that all growers achieve a you Eurogrit
Certification and there are also a number of other standards that they ask growers to achieve before
a grower can export kiwi fruit through Zespri.
So we have organic
Livaux so can you tell me a bit more about how the fruit are treated differently for the organic Livaux and the normal Livaux?
So in New Zealand
We have a group of growers who grow to an organic protocol and standard
And they are all registered so we will we are collecting their fruit the organic fruit, and we're taking it back to
Processing facility. It will be processed to all the organic protocols.
And then that will become the active ingredient for Livaux organic.
Thank you so much Jeff for showing me around the orchard and for sharing the farm to date story of Livaux with our customers.
energetics really looks forward to growing the partnership with kiri produce Thank You Kathy for coming to have a look at the orchard and
We really look forward to the partnership in the future and making new livox product
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