But a further 20 per cent of fruit still on trees could also be lost. Damage to other varieties is estimated to run between 15 and 25 per cent reducing Hawkes' Bay's harvest by about 2million cartons to around 6million.
Unlike kiwifruit growers, apple producers do not have compulsory insurance and so those whose orchards have been affected are likely to be harder hit financially.
The facility has 24 ripening cells on two levels and two packaging lines with a capacity of 45 trays per minute
Peter Shakespeare of Certis Belchim UK explains that growers must think carefully about how to integrate biorational controls in their IPM programmes as synthetic products continue to be banned
Tim O’Malley, group managing director of UK grower-importer Nationwide Produce, highlights the current weather challenges facing the fresh produce industry
The union says Morrisons’ logistics workers in Cheshire and Wakefield could strike over pensions, leaving store shelves empty
New-season crop has been grown by Summer Berry Company and supplied by DPS
Farming industy has seen sick leave rise 44 per cent since 2019
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