A final-year degree student is helping seasonal workers avoid work-related injuries with his specially tailored fitness programme.

New Zealand's first commercial banana plantation will hopefully become a major part of the horticulture scene and create jobs, both in the agriculture and scientific sectors, according to its creators reports This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for FreshPlaza.

Although it’s only a small part of the group, the good market for New Zealand apples contributed to the positive results of BayWa. The German multinational achieved a turnover of 8.3 billion euro, slightly more than in the same period last year.

Apple and stonefruit group seek to overturn MPI directive to cut and burn plant material

New Zealand’s top young fruit and vegetable growers will compete for the title of Young Grower of the Year in Napier on Wednesday, 22 August.

A group of five industry members have joined together to challenge last week’s directive by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) for nurseries and orchardists to contain and/or destroy tens of thousands of apple (Malus) and stonefruit (Prunus) plants.

Seeka Limited has announced plans to invest $18m in its Northland post harvest business over the next three years.

One of New Zealand's largest cherry orchards says finding more direct clients will help drive sales, as it expands production over the next five seasons writes Matthew Russell for FreshPlaza.

New Zealand first technology for packing out apples saw Sunfruit Group gain back a month in productivity results at its new $25million Pack and Cool operation in Hawke’s Bay.

Novelty and health benefits play a major role in influencing consumers’ purchasing decisions and are often controlled in the plant by a family of proteins called MYBs. Understanding how these work could result in new fruits and vegetables on the supermarket shelves.