NZ: Kiwifruit growers convinced of enough evidence for PSA court case
Since last week's confirmation that disease was imported into the country via Chinese pollen there have bee suggestions that this could be the case.
New Zealand Kiwifruit Growers has previously received a legal opinion suggesting that there is not enough evidence for such a case, as there are no precise details of how the disease got into the country, even with point of origin confirmed.
But Te Puke grower Rob Thode believes the two pieces of research that have now come out show the Psa came from a 2009 shipment of unpurified pollen.
"The only possible way for Psa to have gotten into the country was through that Kiwi pollen import that MAF should never have allowed in and it broke all its own rules in doing so."
Mr Thode says the Ministry for Primary Industries, previously MAF, can no longer say it doesn't know how Psa got into the country.
Source: farmingshow.com
