"Greece is our main competitor, and competition from the southern hemisphere will also have some impact on us." Neri Patrizion, President of the KiwiGold alliance in Italy, said.
"Our production this year has increased by 25-28%, all aspects of quality is very high, sugar degree is more than 8 degrees, the dry matter content is very high. But for the Asian market, our kiwi fruit shape over the circle, sales may be affected by some of the impact, because Asian consumers prefer long shaped kiwi.
"In a short span of six years, Greece's output has doubled, reaching 108 thousand tons, but this is only expected to yield, because they lack an organization to provide official data, such as Italy's Cso. I believe the price will be better than last year, but it is not easy at the beginning."
Mr. Neri said that although the supply of our Jingold kiwi fruit is limited, but this is the only competitor of Zespri's golden kiwi fruit. Every company has its own space on the market, I do not think Zespri is in a monopoly position."
Frutteto Il is a processing and trading company owned by the Neri brothers, each year to deal with 3000 to 3500 tons of gold and 2500 tons of kiwi fruit. KiwiGold group has a 750 hectares of kiwi fruit orchards, in 2018 the orchard area will reach 1000 hectares.
Finally, the comments about Donald Trump. "I don't know whether the relationship between his election will contribute to the improvement of Russia and the lifting of the ban. But even if the lifting of the ban tomorrow, it will take at least six months to restructure the market.
