The simple commercial solution could be for kiwifruit growers, Zespri’s owners, to sell 45 per cent of the company for a solid commercial consideration to suitably qualified and responsible free-market exporters – for example Turners & Growers.
Hans Maurer of Auckland-based consultancy The AgriChain Centre comments on New Zealand’s kiwifruit deregulation debate in the January 2011 issue of Eurofruit Magazine.
