Goody, goody, three more kiwifruit varieties have been licensed for commercial production and they are earlier fruiting varieties.
What a pity Zespri never mentioned what spray regime the new varieties require. Currently the Tauranga region is bathed in toxic fumes for most of August from hydrogen cyanamide also known as hi cane, with the new earlier varieties the area will probably be bathed in toxic drift for all of July as well.
Not counting of course the months when copper and other assorted insecticides are applied.
I was recently diagnosed with lymphona, one of the known causes but of course individually unproveable is agrichemicals . It would be interesting to find out whether this regions incidence of lymphona is higher than that of non kiwifruit areas.
So Zespri, how about publishing the spray requirements for the three new varieties, so I can start saving now to be able to leave the area for the hydrogen cyanamide spray season.
Margaret Parker, Pahoia.