Year overview 2020: July-August
July and August saw a number of developments happen worldwide in produce. In Italy, due to spring conditions, it was predicted that many areas in the country would produce less kiwifruits than in a normal year—including the Ravenna province, which was estimated to only reach 50 percent. At the same time in China, the past six months had seen illegal plantings of New Zealand's high valued gold kiwifruit variety, a variety whose rights growers pay hundreds of thousands to dollars per hectare to grow the fruit. Meanwhile 2020 looked to be a peak year for kiwi berry plantations in China and the...
Source: freshplaza.com