History And Evolution Of The Kiwifruit Industry

NutriGrow is a Canadian owned and operated agricultural company, currently operating in the province of Manitoba. The organization has been in business for 60 years and has experienced relatively slow growth, until the introduction of a new product, which turned out to be great success to large agri-businesses. Based on the new products’ success, NutriGrow has made a strategic decision to market this product internationally, with the expectation of increase business activity over the next decade.

The concerns for the 5% of the Australian population who are currently facing food insecurity are predominantly due to reduced access to nutritious food, particularly in rural and remote areas and low socio economic issues around affordability. However as a nation, Australia has more food than it needs and as such has numerous for opportunities for trade, including wheat, barley, diary and beef.

For the following assignment I have chosen kiwi fruit as my source of concentration and focus. As I started to explore this object, first I have decided to focus on the outer appearance. Just by looking at the kiwi fruit, the shape that I noticed is oval or cylindrical, kind of egg-shaped fruit, a little similar to lemon size, with the two ends on each side. It is also pretty clean and uniform in shape, meaning that it’s not wrinkled or shriveled as I look at it. Skin of the fruit is covered with the thin, short, and fuzzy little hair, almost like it’s wrapped with moss that is of brown color with the dark green layer underneath of it that is evidently flat and plain. The overall color of kiwi is a mixture of brown with dark green. As I

The results show that some imports of stone and pone fruits from other countries are competitive to the local fruit growers (RMCG 2013). Furthermore, the high dependency on Asia market drives the Goulburn Valley to improve export competitiveness and more flexible to the market changes (RMCG 2013). It also shows that fruits imports exceeded the fruit export from 2009 to 2012 (Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry 2013). Thus, it is necessary for the Goulburn Valley fruit growers to maintain their universal competitive

To conclude, our current way of agricultural life is not sustainable. The article “What’s for supper” has made me realize that if I hope for a better future for generations to come I should support a locally sourced lifestyle. This article is an eye opener to me and proved to me the importance of supporting locally grown produce. Locally grown produce supports the environment as well as jobs for people in the community. The current system takes a toll on every species on the planet. Humans are overproducing on a massive scale and are wasting close to half of our supplies and

A large array of products are grown in the north-west of Victoria. Some common fruits and vegetables which come from the Mallee are grapes (74% of Victoria’s table grapes and 98% of its dried grapes), almonds and carrots, to name a few. Insterestingly, 20% of the almonds grown in the Mallee are transported to Asia and Europe. HOW IS THE PRODUCE GROWN IN THE

Peter Chapman's expository work Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World was one of the most revelatory pieces of literature I have read. Growing up, we are often told that the integrity of our government is absolute and that the corruption prevalent in some other nations is all but nonexistent in ours. Chapman however, describes a story that directly contradicts this information. During the height of the cold war, the United Fruit Company lobbied the government to overthrow the democratically elected leader of Guatemala, Jacob Arbenz. Arbenz's agrarian reform act would redistribute the land owned by United Fruit Company to the poor farmer class of the country. To counteract this, the United Fruit Company convinced Dwight Eisenhower

The author of the book, “The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World” (2008), Dan Koeppel, who is a famous journalist describes in a fascinating way banana’s cultural importance, threats associated with the crops of banana in the future and banana’ history. Banana is a very delicious fruit and is eaten all over the world. Banana is one of the world’s fourth largest harvests in the world. Dole and Chiquita are eminent American based distributors and producers of banana. They are claiming to produce the banana on low price. In this book, Koeppel discusses the risks associated to the plantation of banana around the world. He also discusses the fact that due to blight, the plantation of banana is destroyed (Koeppel, 2008). He points out that the farmers and the producers have no insight at all regarding this matter (Koeppel, 2008).

“Historically, the banana trade symbolized economic imperialism, injustices in the global trade market, and the exploitation of agriculture-dependent third-world countries”(2). However, they remain to be one of the most profitable items in grocery stores. Making bananas crucial to economic and global food stability for countries all over the world. They are the third largest staple crop, coming only after wheat and coffee. Since bananas are such a sought after fruit, many companies have gone to extensive lengths in the to fight for a share of the market. Chiquita Brands International was one of the pioneer companies to try and globalize bananas. They took a risk and made some very critical mistakes along the way.

Red Bull New Zealand Ltd. is the local unit of the international giant that is Red Bull. In 2010 Kiwi’s bought $30.3 million of Red Bull, this was up 7.5% from the previous year. In the

In light of this, I would like to explore research frontiers in the area of the challenges of managing food and farm businesses in a global setting of the 21st Century. In our society beleaguered by agricultural problems that ranges from economic to environmental problems such as weather and global warming, issues concerning trade and management of agricultural enterprises has been the topic of debate for the past decade. Many developing/poor countries who earn their living from agriculture continuously suffer from poverty and hunger as a result of the increasing pressures on the world's resource base. Policymakers are gripped with finding solutions to problems such as structural and technological constraints, inappropriate domestic policies and an unfavourable external economic environment. As a result, the growth of these economies has been slow, undernourishment has been increasing and the marginalization of these countries in the global economy has continued. This trend has created problems for developing countries over the past decade. Economic and financial

Non-Substitutability: There are numerous substitutes for kiwi. Many people enjoy other types of fruit such as strawberries, oranges, apples, plums, pears…etc. However, there is not a fruit that tastes exactly like kiwifruit and that gives the same health benefits as kiwi does. Also, there is no other fruit that can be eaten with a “spife” like a kiwifruit can be eaten, which makes it hard to substitute.

The industry in which Zespri functions in within New Zealand can be broken up into three broad value generating activities. The first activity is growing of kiwifruit which pertains to the orchards and includes pest and disease control and harvesting. The second includes the post harvesting activities including grading, packing and storing. The final stage and perhaps the most intrinsic stage includes the exporting.This includes the selling and distribution of the kiwifruit to overseas markets. Zespri International group is responsible for marketing almost all the export quality fruit from New Zeland. The only exclusion being the Austrailian Market.

Fyffes procures its products worldwide and is one of the leading distributors of southern hemisphere fresh produce in Europe, in particular fresh produce sourced from South Africa and South America. The most common themes arising from the top managers so far involved the need to foster relationships among the SBUs and work with each other to reduce costs (Geoff Percival, 2012). It is critical for the relationship between the suppliers (Other region markets) and the distributors (UK, Ireland and EU). The four SBUs work together for the fresh fruits supplying and selling, the company launched its worldoffruit.com web site and subsidiary, offering Internet-based business-to-business fruits and vegetables sourcing and information supporting the company's operations are its network of 100 storage, distribution, ripening, and other facilities, a fleet of 17 company-owned or leased temperature-controlled ships, and its own land-based transportation fleet, it can share and reduce the transport cost. The synergy management of the four SBUs also helps Fyffes add more value to the supply chain and make the delivery more efficient.

Wafex is a wholly owned Australian business involved in the horticulture industry since the year 1990. The company is presently Australia’s leading exporter to flower importers and wholesalers domestically and around the world, with expertise in providing Australian native wildflowers both fresh and dried varieties. Wafex’s business strategy is to be proactive in selling, with a strong customer focus, and continually looking for opportunities to add value to its services. The company and its owners are aware of the importance of exporting for the survival and expansion of the company; and also believe quality and time to market are important factors in gaining a competitive advantage in the