China: Low temperatures and rain lead to reduced kiwi crop

"The end of August until the end of October is generally the ideal period to pick kiwis. However, the flowering of kiwi trees was affected by a colder, wetter May and June, resulting in a reduction of the fruit borne by some orchards. Various kiwi producing regions have seen reduced harvests and prices have risen as a result." Ms.Qin Mei, PengShengDa Fruits

Foothold in Domestic Markets

"Our company's main varieties of Kiwi are the SuXiang, CuiXiang, HongYang, QinMei, YeTe and Hayward etc. Of these, the HongYang variety is the best. At present our sales have been directed towards more than 10 cities including Shanghai, Tianjin, Qingdao and Guangzhou. In 2016 the storage capacity of PengShengDa Fruits more than doubled, additionally we launched an online sales platform and cooperated successfully with many other enterprises. "

Automatic Fruit Sorting Machinery
"The base of growing operations for PengShengDa Fruits is in QinLing BeiLu. The packaging workshop in Mei County is 10000 square meters and can store more than 6000 tons in it's cold storage facilities, and with the acquisition of an automated fruit sorting line from the French company Maf Roda Agrobotic, all of the fruit is uniformly packaged and labeled so as to be ready for sale. "

"In order to guarantee the quality of our kiwis, our company adopted cooperative peasant planting methods in our operations, making use of physical pest control technology. For our growers we have provided planting guidance and organic fertilizers, pollen and picking bags. Mei Country PengChengDa agricultural cooperative was founded in August of 2009 and registered for the PengShengDa trademark. The cooperative has a Model Kiwi planting base of 113.7 Hectares.

Qin Mei

PengShengDa Fruits

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Contact: +86 917 5669000

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