What are the factors that could affect the quality of kiwifruit?

There are several pre-harvest factors, factors during harvest, and post-harvest factors that affect the quality of kiwifruits.

The main pre-harvest factors are the stage of maturity, climatic, soil, and cultivation conditions, water relations, the position of fruiting shoots, and pre-harvest sprays with Ca++. Careful harvest avoiding damage of the fruits should be taken under consideration, too.

Post-harvest factors influencing kiwifruit are the possible infection by Botrytis cinerea, post-harvest dips with Ca++, pre-cooling, and storage conditions (temperature, relative humidity, ethylene, control atmosphere storage, ultra-low oxygen storage, hypobaric storage, etc.)