Reading Time: 3 minutes In 2010 the kiwifruit vine killing bacterial disease Psa-v was found in a Bay of Plenty orchard. What followed was job, livelihood and monetary losses for many North Island kiwifruit growers as a variety of gold kiwifruit, Hort-16A, proved to be particularly susceptible to the disease. Unfortunately, the disease spread to other kiwifruit growing regions in the North Island, including Northland, the Coromandel and the Waik…
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