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News & Media4 September 2024
Apple and pear industry prepares for greener future
Aotearoa’s apple and pear industry takes step forward to becoming even more environmentally sustainable with the development of a life cycle analysis (LCA) for a kilo of exported apples.
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Pacific Partnership15 August 2024
New Zealand Apples and Pears warmly welcomes changes to RSE Scheme
New Zealand Apples and Pears (NZAPI) warmly welcomes critical and timely policy changes to the RSE Scheme ahead of the new season.
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News & Media6 August 2024
Kelvin Taylor awarded Industry Contribution Award
Taylor Corp's Kelvin Taylor has been named as the 2024 recipient of the New Zealand Apples and Pears Outstanding Contribution to the Industry Award.
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Events29 July 2024
New Zealand Apples and Pears Annual Conference
The conference brings together growers, industry experts, suppliers and partners, decision-makers, government and media from Aotearoa and around the world.
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Careers and Training18 July 2024
A life and love for orcharding
Growing up on an orchard in Central Otago, Stephen Darling said he would never become an orchardist. “It was too much hard work,” he says. Yet the industry drew him in . . . and he wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Pacific Partnership1 July 2024
The Big Apple Project - Pasifika Senikau Group
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Pacific Partnership30 June 2024
Comparing Apples and Bananas
Iapesa Niue Save came to New Zealand from Samoato pack apples. But he saw the forklift drivers working in the packhouse and set his sights on moving up to that job so he practised in his smoko breaks until he was good enough and went on to drive the forklift at Mr Apple’s Whakatu packhouse.
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Pacific Partnership26 June 2024
From Fisherman to entreprenuer
Picking apples has transformed the lives of Samoan man Ausage Simiti Puna and his family. Within three years he’s gone from eking a living from the sea to business owner, able to support his mother and four siblings - including a disabled younger brother.
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Pacific Partnership26 June 2024
The church that apples built
A Samoan community received a brand new church thanks to the hard work of a group of seasonal apple pickers. Among them were Ropati Neemia, who built his family a new home and is planning to start a business with money earned picking apples.
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26 June 2024
Robbie McCormick
Robbie McCormick is a bundle of energy – and he needs every ounce of it as Orchard Technical Manager at Mr Apple in Hawke’s Bay. If it grows, moves or breathes, he’s a part of it.
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12 June 2024
John and Wendy Evans
John Evans worked in the family orchard from the time he could reach the fruit and reliably pick it. Today, John, his wife Wendy and their family own and run two orchards covering 80 hectares, including land that’s been in the family since 1906.
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News23 November 2023
A burgeoning apple industry in Canterbury
Canterbury’s tiny apple industry is undergoing massive change, with pastoral and arable farmers adding apples into their mix and plans for new post-harvest facilities taking shape.
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