New Zealand: Onion crop quality may be impacted by floods; avocado export season cut short

게시됨 2023년 2월 3일

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Heavy rainfall in New Zealand has caused damage to the country's agricultural exports, specifically onions and avocados. Onions have been washed off fields and left in soggy conditions, potentially reducing export quality and increasing costs for growers. The full impact of this will not be known until later in the year. The avocado export season has also been cut short, with some fruit unable to be harvested due to waterlogged grounds, and likely to be sold on the domestic market instead. This is the third year of low returns for avocado growers, with some facing financial losses.

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By RNZ The quality of New Zealand's most valuable vegetable export crop may be affected by the recent deluge. Last Friday's heavy downpour washed tonnes of onions off the Pukekohe fields where they were drying, and left others lying on soggy ground. Onion exports are worth $150 million a year and exports to New Zealand's main market, Europe, were set to ramp up this week. Onions New Zealand chief executive James Kuperus said initial fears that volumes would be down had eased, and quality would be more of a factor. "We're a low-volume producer in New Zealand but we target higher export values so if the onions have been sitting in the field longer than we want or if they are stained because of the soil that's a big concern for us." It takes six to eight weeks for the onions to be transported to Europe, so any of lower quality would deteriorate further by the time the shipments arrived. "If they don't sell when they get there we still need to pay for the shipping, so really we won't ...

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