Growing kiwifruit on your whenua

Kiwifruit is a large, structured industry, and this factsheet starts with how it works before covering what the vines need and how an orchard is planted, managed, harvested and stored.

It puts the minimum size for a commercial orchard at around 25 hectares and gives running costs per hectare, with a Bay of Plenty orchard as the example of what a block that size can return. It also covers export regulations, food safety, freshwater farm plans and levies.