New Zealand, a magical land in the South Pacific, covers an area of 270,000 square kilometers, has a population of five million, and is 9,000 kilometers in a straight line from China. On March 27, 2017, China and Singapore signed the Belt and Road Cooperation Agreement. At present, China is the largest exporter of trade to the maritime island nation.
According to CCTV Finance, to New Zealand to investigate the variety of investment, The town of Tipuch is a must-go place. The town of Tipuch, with less than 10,000 people in the northern part of New Zealand's North Island, is a benchmark area for kiwifruit cultivation in New Zealand.
In 2008, more than 200 natural experts around the world recognized kiwifruit as having a world origin in Yichang, Hubei Province, in the heart of China, in a small town called Wudu River. The story that can be traced to the current cultivation of kiwifruit in New Zealand originated in 1904, when a New Zealand female teacher named Isabel crossed the Wu river while traveling in China, and a year later, the kiwi seeds she brought back to New Zealand began to sprout and break the ground, and eighty years later, as an artificially selected variety of kiwifruit, the kiwi fruit, became the first choice for many growers in New Zealand. In 1988, New Zealand established the New Zealand Kiwi Marketing Agency with the power of the state, and each grower took a stake in his own orchard.
In 2017, only one related company in New Zealand, Jiapei Kiwifruit, issued an announcement: sales in China exceeded 3 billion yuan.
Highly automated farm orchards, warm marine monsoons in the South Pacific, 2,500 plantation shareholders, and cooperative mode of production make Jiapei kiwifruit very stable in both yield and quality.
New Zealand Jiapei Kiwi CEO Dan. Mattison:
We are pleased to see that the Chinese market has continued to grow, especially in the past five years, with sales in China at around NZ$500 million, and we hope to reach NZ$1 billion in the next decade.
On this side of the ocean, it is called kiwifruit, and in the heart of China in Hubei Province, the Wudu River, its name is kiwifruit, a Silk Road, spreading species, after a hundred years, it acts as a messenger of trade between the two countries, and is also becoming the source of happiness for more and more fruit farmers in New Zealand.
Every editor (WeChat: nbdnews) learned that data from the Economic Cooperation Organization shows that New Zealand is heavily dependent on international trade, and agricultural exports accounted for as much as 24% of the total in 2017. Since the signing of the free trade agreement with China in 2008, both tourism and agricultural exports have increased significantly. But doubling the number of tourists and growing produce is not a good thing relative to New Zealand's population of less than 5 million, in the words of a New Zealander:
If there are too many Chinese tourists, house prices will naturally rise, and there will be more people engaged in tourism; on the contrary, there is a shortage of labor in large areas of pastures and farms, and there is even a phenomenon of "no one shears the wool, rotten fruit and tree heads".
Wool can not be reduced for the time being, but fruit and vegetable products are seasonal, especially in the use of many high-tech kiwifruit plantations, the annual output growth rate is between 15-20%. Therefore, New Zealand farmers know that Chinese have a steady demand for New Zealand kiwifruit, but on the other hand, they face a serious shortage of labor, and the mature kiwi fruit hangs on the tree until it rots and cannot recruit workers.
According to the Global Times, Australian local media reported that the kiwi fruit in The Plenti Bay region of New Zealand has entered the picking period, but there is a shortage of labor, for this reason, the New Zealand government feels that the visa restrictions have been relaxed, allowing holidaymakers to work in orchards and help pick and pack.
With the surge in demand for Kiwifruit in New Zealand around the world, especially in China, kiwi production increased by 19% this year, but with it came a serious shortage of labor. For the first time in 10 years, the local government officially declared a seasonal labor shortage in the region, requiring 1,200 workers to work in kiwi orchards. It is reported that the job requires good physical strength, a minimum wage of S$16.50 per hour (about 73.3 yuan), and workers who temporarily live near the orchard. For many locals, this is an unattractive job. The general manager of the local fruit company said that raising wages was useless, and people would rather go hungry than do manual work.
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