World: Green kiwi plantations decrease and yellow kiwi looms strongly in the business

During Fruittrade, Carlos Cruzat, president of the Kiwi Committee of the Association of Exporters and Producers of Chile (ASOEX), participated in the conference "Promotion of the Chilean Kiwi, promoting a new stage", where he analyzed the economic profitability of the kiwi business and gave to know how in a period of 5 years the volumes of fruit have changed. "The green kiwi continues to be the most significant worldwide, the yellow is taking an important role and the red too, but basically in China. All the varieties are growing and the world contribution of fruit is also, however we have not had better prices , but now they are starting to improve," he explains. Among the largest producers in the world is China with a large number of red and yellow varieties on offer by kilos, which for now do not play a very significant role, almost no exports. Among the rest of the countries that are relevant, there are: New Zealand in the Southern Hemisphere, which are the ones that drive the ...