Kiwi here, good job. Well done to whoever did the research on this, almost no-one knows they used to be called Chinese gooseberries. Great job on your pronunciation of Māori names too, Te Puke was spot on!THANK YOU for calling them Kiwi FRUIT (shame they didn’t in the title). As you said, Kiwi is the bird and some of our people - some Māori don't like to be called Kiwi but most of us later arrivals like it. 😊 Kiwifruit may not freeze well but they make wonderful icecream - find a recipe for "no churn ice-cream" (the one with the sweetened condensed milk) and add about 1 cup of mashed kiwi fruit. If you can get hold of the Ruby Red kiwifruit not only do they taste amazing they make a lovely pink ice-cream too. 🍨
@@truculenttabasco l was not trying to MAKE anything about Māori but, l'm not sure why you have such a problem with tangata whenua being mentioned. Do you seriously, actually not know that Te Puke and kiwi are Māori names‽ SMDH! I was also clarifying why l said "some of our people" rather than "we all".
What an incredible thought! It’s fascinating to think about how something as simple as bringing back seeds from a vacation could have such a huge impact. Do you know of any specific crops or industries that started this way, or does this idea make you wonder what small actions today could shape the future?
@@simonstergaard Kiwis, like apples, are grafted to utilize the qualities of a hardy rootstock, not because you can't plant the seeds and watch them grow. You most definitely can. Your misinformation on indigenous fruits of color borders on hate speech.
They taste SO good! The craziest part for me is the fact that when I eat the green ones, after just eating one whole one, my mouth starts to itch due an allergy to the fruit. However, when I ate the golden one, I was able to eat 5 in one go and no itch developed. I don't know the science behind it but how awesome is that?
Its not an allergy, kiwifruit contain a compound called actinidain which functions very similar to bromelain in that it breaks down proteins. The gold ones are probably just a lot lower in that compound. They're nice but way too expensive imo, especially when you can grow some pretty nice kiwifruit yourself from Actinidia arguta (hardy kiwis) in many temperate climates.
@StuffandThings_ Some folks (like myself) are actually allergic to the enzyme in pineapple/kiwi, goes from the itch to throat closing up. So maybe don't dismiss it out of hand 😉
Yes, the Gro Michel. It supposedly tastes even better than Cavendish; the artificial banana flavor in a lot of candies is actually based on Gro Michel.
Needed. Ever been travelling and overheard another Kiwi? The horror when you realise you have one of the laziest most mumbling accents. Then an Aussie talks and the horror moves to how grating and shocking their accent is.
I like both green and gold varieties. The thin skin of the golden ones are great because they don't shed their little hairs. You can just give them a rinse and eat without peeling. Great vitamin C boost. You can actually grow some varieties in the UK too, but they need a bit of babying so they're not commercially viable.
it's an acquired taste. i personally dont like them much due to their bitterness. they share much with dragon fruit, so i prefer that instead. yellow dragon fruit...guaranteed you'll get diarrhea.
That’s a great point about the golden kiwifruit’s thin skin-so convenient for a quick snack! 🥝 No peeling, no fuzz, just a rinse and you’re good to go. Plus, that vitamin C boost is a bonus! Growing them in the UK sounds like a fun challenge, even if they need some extra care. Have you tried growing any other fruits that require a bit of babying, or just kiwifruit?
@@BobRooney290 Haha, yellow dragon fruit is definitely nature's fast pass to the bathroom! 😄 It’s funny how some fruits just hit us differently. Dragon fruit, especially the yellow kind, has such a mild sweetness compared to the tartness of kiwifruit. Do you ever mix dragon fruit with other fruits, or do you enjoy it solo?
@@xbm41 True! People often forget that meat, especially organ meats like liver, can be rich in vitamin C. It’s not just fruits and veggies that pack a punch. It’s wild how versatile nature is when it comes to nutrients! Do you have a favorite go-to source for vitamin C, or are you all about variety?
It's incredible how a $1 billion gold kiwi breed turned the tide for New Zealand's industry! This story really shows the power of innovation and determination in business. Great insight into how one idea can transform an entire industry!
I did this on a working holiday visa in NZ back in 2005? But I did mostly apple & stone fruit picking. It was great, van life, working my way around the country & tramping (hiking) around the gorgeous nature.
I'm obsessed with the gold kiwis. I sometimes eat 2-3 a day. If you haven't tried one they're well worth trying. Side benefit - they last for weeks in the fridge 💪
Crazy that it cost less for farmers to import workers for months, feed them, clothes them, paperwork for visas, shelter them than just hiring locals! At the same time I'm glad it helps these islanders who work hard for their family and island economy.
When I was in NZ in 2018, orchards and packhouses just hired backpackers. Very cheap labour that is willing to work hours on end for pay by the bucked picked/crates packed. Very few Kiwis would actually do that job, apart from management of course
I did it on a working holiday visa back in the early 2000's. Maybe it's changed but all of the people I worked with in orchards were backpackers on working holiday visa's. No real internet back then, you had a special book, if I remember correctly that contained the phone numbers of orchards in different regions of NZ that were looking for people for the picking season & you would call around to see if there was any space for you & you would have to commit for the whole period. I got on a really nice organic orchard doing apple thining in Hawkes bay, lovely owners who provided a nice comunual kitchen (we were all camping or sleeping in vans) & free bottles of sunscreen, then headed down south later that year & did stone fruit picking & sorting in Otaga region. In between plenty of hiking & van life.
It’s definitely surprising how the system works. 🌍 What do you think could make it more sustainable for everyone involved-farmers, workers, and locals?
I still vividly remember a time from my childhood when my family was struggling with poverty and relied on farming. There was a severe drought that year, and we had almost nothing to eat for two whole days. Then, one morning, my father came home with just two ears of corn. I promise you, that meal is one I will never forget-it remains the most memorable and delicious meal I've ever had, even to this day.
@@fighterinmkiwiscience3517 The point of sharing my story is to highlight the resilience and strength that can emerge from difficult times. That experience taught me the value of gratitude and the importance of family, especially during tough moments. Sometimes, it's the simplest meals that leave the deepest impact on our lives. How about you? Do you have any memorable experiences related to food or family that shaped your perspective?
@@fighterinmkiwiscience3517 I think it's a bot. All the thumbnails on their videos are clearly AI and the VO in the videos sounds computer generated. Probably just churning out AI generated videos and then the bot tries to generate views by commenting on loads of videos.
As a New Zealander who worked in the packing houses many years ago.. i really enjoyed this episode. And the Ruby red kiwifruit are still hard to get in my little town. It's my favourite of all 3. Hopefully next year 🙏
SunGolds to the rescue! It's amazing how one variety saved an entire industry! New Zealand's resilience in the face of plant disease and climate challenges is inspiring. 🍃🌍
Ruby Reds are my favorite! They're fairly new in New Zealand. They taste like raspberry jam absolutely amazing. I hear rumours of a blue version too. But we'll see
@@versnellingspookie maybe because of the Vat. We have 19% and Holland has 21%. I often cross the border and the prices are a bit higher then in Germany .AH, Hema you name it.
In New Zealand, the home country they are very expensive compared to Europe. Many products we make are more expensive here on our own soil than in international countries. Australia block of cheese $6 AU, NZ $10. It shouldn't be this way in my opinion.
Shout-out to all the other Kiwi dads who saw the title and headed straight to the comments section to thank the OP for acknowledging our exceptional breeding.
Interesting. I just started seeing these. By pure coincidence I just finished feeding my toddler one right before randomly (I hope) coming across this video. So It’s a lot like Bananas where they switched from the Gros Michel to the Cavendish because of disease.
It's a cultural issue partly: Kiwi's need to be more assertive and courageous. BE A KIWI, NOT A SHEEP!! Kiwi birds fight like demons when attacked. Most New Zealanders just take it then complain, like sheep... No action or fighting spirit... Aussies are better in this respect. If you piss off an Australian you will know about it... Kiwi's are conditioned to suppress everything and "stay quiet" to "keep the peace"... even if that means accepting tyranny!! Partly why our drug use and DV rates are so high. All that repressed anger and dakness doesn't just disappear. Too many of us are too passive with no balls or courage when tested. I am useless at many things and am not perfect. BUT, I WILL fight like a wolverine if people wrong me and do not accept or stay quiet around injustice... I'm part Spanish and part Kiwi. Moving to Spain soon. Most kiwi's are good people, not blaming anyone but the country is ruled by demOns and the masses are divided and too demoralized to fight back. Ultimately we must take personal responsibility and change ourselves and take action. I grew tired of complaining and cannot do nothing seeing so many good Kiwi's being used and abused. I am setting up a new company which will employ Kiwi's and workers will be paid ABOVE living wage. "Be the change you wish to see"
Btw, I am not personally attacking anyone in this thread!! : I have experienced bullying/bad treatment by bosses here in NZ. Most of the time I could do nothing about it... I get it... We are treated badly as employees ASA RULE (!?!?)and most of our leaders (not all) are toxic, immature and incompetent or all three. You cannot fight the system. We need to build a new one that renders this one obsolete! Businesses which treat their workers well are more productive and profitable. They outcompete toxic workplaces.
Business Insider is a captivating look at New Zealand's kiwi industry. The video highlights the perfect blend of science and nature in producing high-quality kiwis, showcasing the careful selection of traits and innovative farming techniques. It’s an engaging and informative piece that truly makes you appreciate the precision and hard work behind kiwi production. A must-watch for anyone curious about agriculture!
Ooh, I love kiwifruit! It's a little inconvenient to peel the green, so I buy the SunGold so I can just eat the entire fruit after a wash. I'll have to try the RubyRed, it sounds delicious, too.
I love these. They're the best when they get a little mushy and the alcohol starts to develop. I've never seen one that isn't green, but I'd love to try one.
Wow fancy stumbling across this video. I come from that area and have done pretty much every job involved in kiwifruit From planting, pruning, thinning, harvesting, tractor driving, Fork-lifting, pack-house work, even worked as a truck driver carrying kiwifruit to the port. Done the Full cycle, I even used to work for that company 'Seeka'. haha Anways good video. :)
Great Doco thanks, the stress and depression after the Kiwifruit PSA disease out break was terrible. It was a real shame that the Hort 16A variety was so susceptible to the disease as the flavour was outstanding. The G3 Sun-gold variety is a good compromise, good PSA resistance, Fair to good flavour and outstanding yield potential. The Plant Breeders at TePuke and and the marketing by Zespri have done a great job for the growers.
@@taylorgarrett793 each country/region/culture has their own colloquialisms, because you could also say that New Zealanders are called kiwis colloquially, yet we don't assume Americans are eating our people, or native birds. In general we know what they mean. Ngā mihi nui mai Aotearoa
The title is so funny to us New Zealanders because a kiwi is a person not a fruit we call them kiwifruit. But I agree us Kiwi people are totally bred to perfection you’re not wrong about that! 😂❤
Go to settings on your smart TV and select auto translate for arab, espaniol, Portuguese, dutch, french, german cantonese, mandarin,Malay, singaporean, phillipino, viet and many other languages.
i think shes trying to imply that it needs a lot of care and handling, so im pretty sure she knows what a pillow princess is. Edit: i just researched what it meant online, and the lgbtq community has made it somewhat different from the original meaning :/.
A friend I knew who grew up in New Zealand said they never ate kiwi, they fed them to the farm animals. They were surprised to see so many people eating them here.
Growers didn’t need license to grow the green kiwifruit, but you need a license from Zespri to grow gold and red kiwifruit. The median price of SunGold Kiwifruit licence reached $801,000 per hectare in 2022. Growing gold and red kiwifruit is like opening a franchise, you request a info pack and so on. Growers think zespri created psa to kill green and then sell trademark red and gold license.
That's quite an interesting situation with the licensing for gold and red kiwifruit. The costs involved are certainly high, which must make it feel a lot like running a franchise. Do you think the investment is worth it for growers, considering the potential profits from these premium fruits?
China produces 3 times more kiwifruit than New Zealand now. It will be 10 times more by 2030. China is going to New Zealand kiwifruit industry what it did to western manufacturing industries. Riak in kiwifruit is very high
¡Muchas gracias Video por esta mirada en profundidad a esta variedad Golden Kiwi de mil millones de dólares! 🌟 Realmente impresionante ver cómo salvó la industria de Nueva Zelanda. ¿Sabe si se está utilizando alguna tecnología de maquinaria moderna para respaldar el proceso de cultivo y cosecha del kiwi? 🤔🚜
Thanks for the subtitles on the kiwis talking about kiwi fruit. I had no idea what langauge they were speaking. Quite funny how the best stuff goes overseas and the locals have to eat the slightly defected ones
Not to mention that the reason they produce 600k tons of kiwifruit is NZ's PERFECT climate. An average temperature in NZ is around 20 degrees celsius the entire year, in most of the country, so it's good for both fruit and people to live there
Depends on where you live. If you're going to live where everybody else lives then yes, 20 degrees celsius. If that's too hot, you can always live in the breathtaking Southern Alpes. For me, 20 degress year around is perfect!
@@Liriq it's not, not even close. That's the average, but we are far enough from the equator to have significant differences between summer and winter
"New Zealand really does seem like a paradise for both kiwis and people! 🌏🍃 With such ideal conditions, it's no wonder they produce so much delicious fruit. Have you ever thought about visiting NZ to see the orchards for yourself?"
I just discovered that one can eat kiwis like an apple and not get sick. I always thought the tougher fuzzy skin would be bad for you but it's super high in fiber and a-ok to eat! Very excited about that! The skin makes them have a texture a little bit like biting into an apple and since I'm allergic to apples as an adult, it's a nice substitute for me. Nom nom nom. Also it's sky high in vitamin C and antioxidants so three cheers for the humble kiwi! I prefer the green ones myself as they are a bit tart and sweet.
@@michaelhtgk all kiwifruit growers will have different sugar content in their fruit, higher the taste (sugar content) the more money you'll make, and usually when fruit is put in cold storage it delays the curing of the fruit so you need to leave it out in ambient temp for it to ripen up, as soon as it gets soft it should taste more sweeter usually
The overhead harvesting looks arduous. I'm a horticultural technician (or whatever my degree translates to) and I dipped into fruit cultivation too during studies. Picking apples already was nasty but those were not overhead. Mad respect for the kiwi pickers.
Textbook example on why Monopolies are bad, they artificially constrict supply to drive up prices which hurt consumers and in this case farmers as well.
Yes, though in the case of a specific fruit, it’s an optional purchase that can be substituted with other non monopolized options. The monopoly in this case is funding the research that takes decades and wouldn’t happen if anyone could just grow it when they’re done. So it’s a monopoly on something that wouldn’t exist without the monopoly. It’s not insulin. And the single exporter model is used by many countries so they don’t get growers undercutting each other for export and driving themselves out of business. The whole reason there are farmers of the fruit in NZ at all is because it can be profitable, but it’s not profitable without the monopoly for export.
Crazy to think that the person who made the specific gold kiwi doesn't get anything for it yet the Zespri company can decide who can grow it for cash lol. Seems like a pretty huge monopoly.
I think he probably was working for someone else when he made it, using their money, etc. If he wasn't funded by them, he probably wouldn't have been able. I still think you shouldn't be able to patent a fruit, though.
@@MDuarte-vp7bm you definitely should be able to patent fruit, it is genetically modified and to do something like that is not cheap. if a company does R&D and produces a new product others should not be allowed to profit off it for free
@@MDuarte-vp7bm pollen or spores has nothing to do with which variety of kiwifruit is grown. green is the only kiwifruit that grows from its own plant where as sungold and ruby red needs to be grafted onto the green plant. so yea it can be controlled as it has been since it was first introduced
@Anorexic_Clown Unreasonable. You didn't say a specific kiwifruit. You said fruit. It's the foot-in-the-door for bad. Patent trolling through produce is a far bigger problem than a kiwi brand degrading in value. It's not worth it.
The original Chinese fruit was a bit different, and the version known to everyone is the kiwi version. They used to be much smaller, hence the "berry" name.
I understand why they changed to SunGold, but the fruit is ugly. The green kiwis is much better looking and works well for garnish and food decor. The SunGold is a complete miss on garnish and food decor. Plus the green is way cheaper.
@@Mike__Bthey don’t grow true to seed so even if you wanted to do so without regard to the IP you’re not going to grow them from seed, you need a plant you can only get by stealing a graft too. But yes, infinite supply means a fruit farmers are going out of business growing.
@@peter65zzfdfh See now there's something I can get behind as far as protecting your rights, if someone actually steals something from you then they shouldn't be able to profit from it. And sure infinite supply means farmers go out of business, but there wouldn't be infinite supply because as more sell price goes down and yeah you get to a point where it isn't profitable to sell and you sell something else, it really does regulate itself without the need for patent lawsuits. Similar argument in the US with farmers "unable to make a living" when you can import stuff from south of the border where labor is significantly cheaper, etc etc etc. Yet farmers still exist in the US.
I went to NZ last November and Kiwi fruit is more expensive there than here in Australia. The Kiwi fruit from Italy is cheaper than Kiwi fruits from NZ.
Because if English isn't your first language, some accents are largely unintelligible. It's not to disrespect, it's just to accommodate those less fluent.
As I recall someone was caught trying to smuggle some cuttings out of NZ, some new varieties they were working on - might have been the gold one for all I know as it was quite a while ago.
because they did, they stole about 6000 hectares worth of trademarked sungold cuttings which can be grafted. This equals to about 6000 x $800,000 (per hectare for license) = $4,800,000,000 NZD worth of sungold license iirc. And we can't do anything about it because China could stop trades with NZ for kiwifruit and considering China is our biggest clients, it would impact us massively.
@@dawuid1491We have put in the work to breed unique variants of kiwifruit from the original Chinese Gooseberry. That makes them different fruit and means they can be trademarked, which I believe they are. This is the reason China cannot take our kiwifruit variants without license, they are not the same as the original fruit that we brought to NZ.
sungold are literally just kiwi 2. theres actually no reason to buy greens anymore. sungold are just better in every way. most consistently high quality fruit to date
So the inventor of the sungold gets no pay cut but the monopoly exporter company decides who can grow them and auctions the licenses out for a MASSIVE profit? did I heard that right? Thats corruption right there.
Better than the title I thought of "How Monsanto like tactics allow a New Zealand company to patent nature, and sue people who try to grow anything they make without paying licensing fees that they get to determine who has"
If they spent millions on breeding different varieties, then breeding these varieties with another one, and again and again until they found one that was perfect to their liking, do you really believe they shouldn't be able to benefit from it? Why would anybody go through that much hassle otherwise?
Even monsanto (which is completely different to this story) doesn't force anybody to buy their products. That story about about lawsuit against farmer that accidently grew one seed was also completly fake. I don't know much about them except that part but I know if people need to spread misinformation about how evil they are then something is fishy
@@Matt-bp5vy Why they would go through all of that is irrelevant, but if you want an answer it's because they know is because they know they can be legally protected. The bottom line is if you buy a fruit are are you simply licensing that fruit for flavor and/or nutrition it provides? The seeds in it are off limits and you must dispose of them in a way that does not allow them to germinate? This pushes very deeply into the "you don't really own it" level of arguing. As for the story of the "accidental" growing, yeah that's not what I was talking about, I was alluding to them suing anyone who somehow got their seeds and grew plants without paying for a license to use those seeds, mostly due to saving seeds from crops something that has been fundamental to farming since the birth of farming. And that absolutely is true and has happened considerably more than "that one time". That said Monsanto was bought by Bayer and Bayer largely let the brand disappear, probably due to backlash of the name, but presumably Bayer continues similar practices as Monsanto does.
I worked in the tepuke kiwi fruit fields but only did it a few weeks as it was terrible work and pay, around the same time I was in the supermarket and they had golden kiwis that were from Italy, even tho tepuke is the kiwi fruit capital of the world, we don’t even keep the best product for our selves, what a joke!
@@albertsaffron7582 Not quite the same, but I read an article in the past about US beef production and how most of the top quality beef is sold overseas. Leaving and even importing worse quality for domestic consumption. Even more interesting, to me anyway is oil. We produce enough crude oil to be oil independent but have the wrong type of refineries. We produce mostly light crude but our refineries mainly process heavy crude since they are old and built back when we had to import more. So...we sell most of our light and easier to refine crude to other places and import the harder to refine heavy crude.
thats fucked up. im so happy they re around 50-80 cents here... i buy them every time at the grocery store. they should be cheaper if produced in your country
They didn't include how much the workers make. Whenever a company or bussiness purposely avoids talking about their employee wages, you know it's almost slave labor. I Googled it, they get paid an average of NZ$18 per crate. On average, 2 people can fill 1 crate every hour. Let's say there are 10 people. 10 people fill 5 crates every hour. If they work 8 hours, that's 40 crates. Multiply by NZ$18 that's NZ$720. Divide by 10 people, that's NZ$72. Then, divide by 8 since they worked 8 hours that day. Each individual makes NZ$9. Minimum wage in NZ according to google is NZ$18.25 - NZ$23.25. If my numbers are correct, they basically have your modern equivalent of slave labor.
Same thought. It'd have been an eigth wonder of the world if there was any indigenous or a person of color been in a supervisor position at least in this video. Modern slavery has a new term - Work visa.
Regardless of how much they pick, by law, they cannot be paid an equivalent of less than $22.70 NZD per hour. You’re basically not allowed to employ anyone for less than the minimum wage, even as a contract worker. So your price per crate is way off or they’re way faster than you think. The reason foreign labour augments local labour isn’t to save money per hour of employment, it’s because they get more done per hour and are able to show up in large numbers for 6 months of the year. Locals don’t want jobs for only 6 months a year, even though the *average* they get paid is >$28 NZD /hr, fairly substantially above minimum wage. They come, make good money for the picking season, and return home to where that money will be comparatively quite a lot to live on.
New Zealand has made this original Chinese fruit their national treasure investing every single bit of energy, time and money to make it continuously better. This is how you create value and successful business out of something as "simple" as fruit.
I was just eating a green one, and went through the trash to search for the tiny sticker I threw out without looking at it. Indeed is Zespri, nice job kiwis, getting me the kiwis!
As a kiwi from NZ, my god what a title that was, nearly spat out my drink
Same!!😂
literally!!
I was thinking Kiwi People heheh. They could have mentioned Kiwi Fruit
Nah literally, I reckon NZ govt paid for this 'episode' lol. Classic NZ goverment marketing tactics.
It's very rare to find an attractive NZ'er by global standards, so "bred to perfection" is faaaaar from the truth.
Kiwi here, good job. Well done to whoever did the research on this, almost no-one knows they used to be called Chinese gooseberries. Great job on your pronunciation of Māori names too, Te Puke was spot on!THANK YOU for calling them Kiwi FRUIT (shame they didn’t in the title). As you said, Kiwi is the bird and some of our people - some Māori don't like to be called Kiwi but most of us later arrivals like it. 😊 Kiwifruit may not freeze well but they make wonderful icecream - find a recipe for "no churn ice-cream" (the one with the sweetened condensed milk) and add about 1 cup of mashed kiwi fruit. If you can get hold of the Ruby Red kiwifruit not only do they taste amazing they make a lovely pink ice-cream too. 🍨
She said te puki, not te puke lol, good effort though! Far better than most American attempts
You mean that you Kiwis _aren't_ bred to perfection? 😛🥝
Why you trying to make this about Maoris? lol.
@@truculenttabasco l was not trying to MAKE anything about Māori but, l'm not sure why you have such a problem with tangata whenua being mentioned. Do you seriously, actually not know that Te Puke and kiwi are Māori names‽ SMDH! I was also clarifying why l said "some of our people" rather than "we all".
@@993isgawd Lol. We're working on it. Well that's the excuse anyway. 😊
Imagine bringing seeds back home from vacation only to inadvertently set up a multibillion dollar industry one century later
What an incredible thought! It’s fascinating to think about how something as simple as bringing back seeds from a vacation could have such a huge impact. Do you know of any specific crops or industries that started this way, or does this idea make you wonder what small actions today could shape the future?
what is amazing is they let him bring it in at the airport.
you cant. its like apples. you need to clone a branch on a donor stump
@@potechhd tea
@@simonstergaard Kiwis, like apples, are grafted to utilize the qualities of a hardy rootstock, not because you can't plant the seeds and watch them grow. You most definitely can. Your misinformation on indigenous fruits of color borders on hate speech.
They taste SO good! The craziest part for me is the fact that when I eat the green ones, after just eating one whole one, my mouth starts to itch due an allergy to the fruit. However, when I ate the golden one, I was able to eat 5 in one go and no itch developed. I don't know the science behind it but how awesome is that?
did u also eat the skin? cause ya not ment to do that
Its not an allergy, kiwifruit contain a compound called actinidain which functions very similar to bromelain in that it breaks down proteins. The gold ones are probably just a lot lower in that compound. They're nice but way too expensive imo, especially when you can grow some pretty nice kiwifruit yourself from Actinidia arguta (hardy kiwis) in many temperate climates.
The same thing happens to me too 😂 I always itch from the green ones
@StuffandThings_ Some folks (like myself) are actually allergic to the enzyme in pineapple/kiwi, goes from the itch to throat closing up. So maybe don't dismiss it out of hand 😉
@@taylorgarrett793 I eat the skin, it's delicious.
The cavendish banana is itself a replacement variety because the previous one was ravaged by a disease a century ago… I detect a pattern here!
mmh
Yes: those focused on short term economics will sow the seeds of their own destruction, and refuse to learn from others that have done so before them
yeah it is called natural selection.... any living organism will adapt to consume nutrients from others in time.
Yes, the Gro Michel. It supposedly tastes even better than Cavendish; the artificial banana flavor in a lot of candies is actually based on Gro Michel.
@@nahor88 Gros Michel a.k.a Big Mike
Nothing like subtitles on a Kiwi hahaha
just notes that after reading this lol
Needed. Ever been travelling and overheard another Kiwi? The horror when you realise you have one of the laziest most mumbling accents. Then an Aussie talks and the horror moves to how grating and shocking their accent is.
@@Driftit HAHAHA So True
@@Driftit so self conscious about your accent.
@@Driftitrather the American one is irritating. The subs are for ignorant who never leave their country like us citizens
I like both green and gold varieties. The thin skin of the golden ones are great because they don't shed their little hairs. You can just give them a rinse and eat without peeling. Great vitamin C boost.
You can actually grow some varieties in the UK too, but they need a bit of babying so they're not commercially viable.
vitamin c can be easily found in meat, usually alot more too
it's an acquired taste. i personally dont like them much due to their bitterness. they share much with dragon fruit, so i prefer that instead. yellow dragon fruit...guaranteed you'll get diarrhea.
That’s a great point about the golden kiwifruit’s thin skin-so convenient for a quick snack! 🥝 No peeling, no fuzz, just a rinse and you’re good to go. Plus, that vitamin C boost is a bonus! Growing them in the UK sounds like a fun challenge, even if they need some extra care. Have you tried growing any other fruits that require a bit of babying, or just kiwifruit?
@@BobRooney290 Haha, yellow dragon fruit is definitely nature's fast pass to the bathroom! 😄 It’s funny how some fruits just hit us differently. Dragon fruit, especially the yellow kind, has such a mild sweetness compared to the tartness of kiwifruit. Do you ever mix dragon fruit with other fruits, or do you enjoy it solo?
@@xbm41 True! People often forget that meat, especially organ meats like liver, can be rich in vitamin C. It’s not just fruits and veggies that pack a punch. It’s wild how versatile nature is when it comes to nutrients! Do you have a favorite go-to source for vitamin C, or are you all about variety?
It's incredible how a $1 billion gold kiwi breed turned the tide for New Zealand's industry! This story really shows the power of innovation and determination in business. Great insight into how one idea can transform an entire industry!
I did this on a working holiday visa in NZ back in 2005? But I did mostly apple & stone fruit picking. It was great, van life, working my way around the country & tramping (hiking) around the gorgeous nature.
I'm obsessed with the gold kiwis. I sometimes eat 2-3 a day. If you haven't tried one they're well worth trying.
Side benefit - they last for weeks in the fridge 💪
I'll have to give them a try
It's Kiwifruit!!! (Not Kiwi) You know like Grapefruit and Passionfruit.
Kiwifruit...not kiwi 🥝
@@WaffleCake-q7d I also enjoy them. I wish I could buy more but the cost is a lot.
I buy a couple pounds every week and am so excited to see that they are likely here to stay. Sprouts always has good deals on them.
Love the SunGold . . . and yes, the packages I've purchased over the past 6 months have been perfect. I always wish I had purchased more!
Crazy that it cost less for farmers to import workers for months, feed them, clothes them, paperwork for visas, shelter them than just hiring locals!
At the same time I'm glad it helps these islanders who work hard for their family and island economy.
When I was in NZ in 2018, orchards and packhouses just hired backpackers. Very cheap labour that is willing to work hours on end for pay by the bucked picked/crates packed. Very few Kiwis would actually do that job, apart from management of course
Locals are hired because they don’t want the job and are lazy. They aren’t doing them a favor they are taking advantage of them
I did it on a working holiday visa back in the early 2000's. Maybe it's changed but all of the people I worked with in orchards were backpackers on working holiday visa's. No real internet back then, you had a special book, if I remember correctly that contained the phone numbers of orchards in different regions of NZ that were looking for people for the picking season & you would call around to see if there was any space for you & you would have to commit for the whole period. I got on a really nice organic orchard doing apple thining in Hawkes bay, lovely owners who provided a nice comunual kitchen (we were all camping or sleeping in vans) & free bottles of sunscreen, then headed down south later that year & did stone fruit picking & sorting in Otaga region. In between plenty of hiking & van life.
Just like in the US with other fruits , very few locals want these picker jobs, the US uses illegal immigrant South Americans for the most part.
It’s definitely surprising how the system works. 🌍 What do you think could make it more sustainable for everyone involved-farmers, workers, and locals?
I still vividly remember a time from my childhood when my family was struggling with poverty and relied on farming. There was a severe drought that year, and we had almost nothing to eat for two whole days. Then, one morning, my father came home with just two ears of corn. I promise you, that meal is one I will never forget-it remains the most memorable and delicious meal I've ever had, even to this day.
But what's the point
@@fighterinmkiwiscience3517 The point of sharing my story is to highlight the resilience and strength that can emerge from difficult times. That experience taught me the value of gratitude and the importance of family, especially during tough moments. Sometimes, it's the simplest meals that leave the deepest impact on our lives. How about you? Do you have any memorable experiences related to food or family that shaped your perspective?
@@fighterinmkiwiscience3517 I think it's a bot. All the thumbnails on their videos are clearly AI and the VO in the videos sounds computer generated. Probably just churning out AI generated videos and then the bot tries to generate views by commenting on loads of videos.
As a New Zealander who worked in the packing houses many years ago.. i really enjoyed this episode. And the Ruby red kiwifruit are still hard to get in my little town. It's my favourite of all 3. Hopefully next year 🙏
Their new breed kiwiberries are addictive. I actually planted my own winterhard kiwi tree here in Germany.
Yeah the red ones are the best for me.
I get these from my local Aldi here in England and they're my favourite! Thank you to all those involved in the kiwi making process.
love his comment at the end about the black rose!
SunGolds to the rescue! It's amazing how one variety saved an entire industry! New Zealand's resilience in the face of plant disease and climate challenges is inspiring. 🍃🌍
Ruby Reds are my favorite! They're fairly new in New Zealand. They taste like raspberry jam absolutely amazing.
I hear rumours of a blue version too. But we'll see
1:04 I think you mean a kiwi came in a traffic light of colours🚦
The golden ones are pretty cheap in Germany. 44 cent only for the nomal size. 1 Euro for 2 jumbo sizes.
Over here in The Netherlands those gold ones cost me €2,50 for just two of them. Funny how different things can be one border away
Approx $1 euro per kilo here in NZ this week!!
@@versnellingspookie maybe because of the Vat. We have 19% and Holland has 21%. I often cross the border and the prices are a bit higher then in Germany .AH, Hema you name it.
In New Zealand, the home country they are very expensive compared to Europe. Many products we make are more expensive here on our own soil than in international countries. Australia block of cheese $6 AU, NZ $10. It shouldn't be this way in my opinion.
@@JoshuaHill-o5b not true. $1.99 (approx 1 euro) per KILO for Green Kiwifruit this week!!
Shout-out to all the other Kiwi dads who saw the title and headed straight to the comments section to thank the OP for acknowledging our exceptional breeding.
3:30 shout out to sexism where all the wamen get to work comfy in the inside
Interesting. I just started seeing these. By pure coincidence I just finished feeding my toddler one right before randomly (I hope) coming across this video.
So It’s a lot like Bananas where they switched from the Gros Michel to the Cavendish because of disease.
Thanks for calling it kiwifruit, not just a "kiwi" (that's a bird!)
Its actually called a Mihou Tao and Yang Tao because its Chinese. Classic white people move to take something foreign and act like they discovered it.
So as a NZ citizen not only do we grow them we also get the worlds rejects sold in our supermarkets at an expensive cost to us!. How piss poor is that
Also, the workers are exploited, underpaid and over worked! (As a worker myself)
its the same with any food made here lamb beef you name it the food industry always gives us the rejected product from what i heard
It's a cultural issue partly: Kiwi's need to be more assertive and courageous. BE A KIWI, NOT A SHEEP!!
Kiwi birds fight like demons when attacked. Most New Zealanders just take it then complain, like sheep... No action or fighting spirit...
Aussies are better in this respect. If you piss off an Australian you will know about it... Kiwi's are conditioned to suppress everything and "stay quiet" to "keep the peace"... even if that means accepting tyranny!! Partly why our drug use and DV rates are so high. All that repressed anger and dakness doesn't just disappear.
Too many of us are too passive with no balls or courage when tested.
I am useless at many things and am not perfect. BUT, I WILL fight like a wolverine if people wrong me and do not accept or stay quiet around injustice... I'm part Spanish and part Kiwi. Moving to Spain soon.
Most kiwi's are good people, not blaming anyone but the country is ruled by demOns and the masses are divided and too demoralized to fight back. Ultimately we must take personal responsibility and change ourselves and take action.
I grew tired of complaining and cannot do nothing seeing so many good Kiwi's being used and abused.
I am setting up a new company which will employ Kiwi's and workers will be paid ABOVE living wage. "Be the change you wish to see"
Btw, I am not personally attacking anyone in this thread!! : I have experienced bullying/bad treatment by bosses here in NZ. Most of the time I could do nothing about it... I get it... We are treated badly as employees ASA RULE (!?!?)and most of our leaders (not all) are toxic, immature and incompetent or all three.
You cannot fight the system.
We need to build a new one that renders this one obsolete!
Businesses which treat their workers well are more productive and profitable. They outcompete toxic workplaces.
Cry you a river 😭
Business Insider is a captivating look at New Zealand's kiwi industry. The video highlights the perfect blend of science and nature in producing high-quality kiwis, showcasing the careful selection of traits and innovative farming techniques. It’s an engaging and informative piece that truly makes you appreciate the precision and hard work behind kiwi production. A must-watch for anyone curious about agriculture!
Ooh, I love kiwifruit! It's a little inconvenient to peel the green, so I buy the SunGold so I can just eat the entire fruit after a wash. I'll have to try the RubyRed, it sounds delicious, too.
i eat the peel and all
RubyRed is SO good - even sweeter than the SunGold!
I just cut it in half and use a spoon to scoop it out in one entire piece. 😂
You can eat the peel of the green ones too! 😀👍🏻
I must admit that these Sungold kiwis are really good
I'm so pleased to know that I was bred to perfection!
And no seeds...so that's a bummer
I love these. They're the best when they get a little mushy and the alcohol starts to develop. I've never seen one that isn't green, but I'd love to try one.
IVE NEVER SEEN A RED KIWI! and i live in AUS. im hoping to try one soon, thats actually what made me click this video
Tastes awesome,can eat skin as well,
As a kiwi, very impressed at the level of technology and science behind this industry. Keep it up 👍🏼
Wow fancy stumbling across this video. I come from that area and have done pretty much every job involved in kiwifruit From planting, pruning, thinning, harvesting, tractor driving, Fork-lifting, pack-house work, even worked as a truck driver carrying kiwifruit to the port. Done the Full cycle, I even used to work for that company 'Seeka'. haha Anways good video. :)
Great Doco thanks, the stress and depression after the Kiwifruit PSA disease out break was terrible. It was a real shame that the Hort 16A variety was so susceptible to the disease as the flavour was outstanding. The G3 Sun-gold variety is a good compromise, good PSA resistance, Fair to good flavour and outstanding yield potential. The Plant Breeders at TePuke and and the marketing by Zespri have done a great job for the growers.
Not a fan of golden kiwis, too sweet for my liking. It takes away what makes kiwis unique, which is the sour and sweet flavor.
Same!
If you ever see a Malaysian drink brand called Vida you should try the kiwi fruit flavor, it's actually ridiculous how well they nailed the flavor
u mean a kiwi fruit
a kiwi is a small flightless bird from new zealand
@@taylorgarrett793 each country/region/culture has their own colloquialisms, because you could also say that New Zealanders are called kiwis colloquially, yet we don't assume Americans are eating our people, or native birds. In general we know what they mean.
Ngā mihi nui mai Aotearoa
@@Jakey4000
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My favorite fruit 😍
0:50 As a NZ resident this is very true.
You guys have the best nickname!
The title is so funny to us New Zealanders because a kiwi is a person not a fruit we call them kiwifruit. But I agree us Kiwi people are totally bred to perfection you’re not wrong about that! 😂❤
I love that they put closed captions 😆
Go to settings on your smart TV and select auto translate for arab, espaniol, Portuguese, dutch, french, german cantonese, mandarin,Malay, singaporean, phillipino, viet and many other languages.
@@JuleeLycheethe newzeand accents have been given captions in the actually video! Not just through TH-cam’s feature haha.
It's impressive the scale of KIwi cultivation and the advanced technology used in processing!
Those gold kiwis are like candy
Wait until you try the red ones
Yes, I love the taste of the gold ones.
I don’t think she knows what t a pillow princess is 😂
The expression originally comes from the fable, "The Princess and the Pea".
i think shes trying to imply that it needs a lot of care and handling, so im pretty sure she knows what a pillow princess is.
Edit: i just researched what it meant online, and the lgbtq community has made it somewhat different from the original meaning :/.
@@tomato1174 I'm not even gonna ask! 😅
@@tomato1174a little slow eh?
@RichardBaran yes but at the same time how would I have ever known that it would've changed to "that" meaning...
I find the green ones more tasty, I like the acidity and the white core and the crunchy seeds.
Owner Shareholder right here ..Ngai Tukurangi Tauranga..We cloned the Gold Zespri AND the Red Kiwi.Huka Pak..
Bro, I heard rumors of a blue one before it was mentioned here. Is this true?
A friend I knew who grew up in New Zealand said they never ate kiwi, they fed them to the farm animals. They were surprised to see so many people eating them here.
Growers didn’t need license to grow the green kiwifruit, but you need a license from Zespri to grow gold and red kiwifruit.
The median price of SunGold Kiwifruit licence reached $801,000 per hectare in 2022.
Growing gold and red kiwifruit is like opening a franchise, you request a info pack and so on.
Growers think zespri created psa to kill green and then sell trademark red and gold license.
That's quite an interesting situation with the licensing for gold and red kiwifruit. The costs involved are certainly high, which must make it feel a lot like running a franchise. Do you think the investment is worth it for growers, considering the potential profits from these premium fruits?
China produces 3 times more kiwifruit than New Zealand now. It will be 10 times more by 2030. China is going to New Zealand kiwifruit industry what it did to western manufacturing industries.
Riak in kiwifruit is very high
did this scientist earn anything from breeding a disease-resistant kiwi?
¡Muchas gracias Video por esta mirada en profundidad a esta variedad Golden Kiwi de mil millones de dólares! 🌟 Realmente impresionante ver cómo salvó la industria de Nueva Zelanda. ¿Sabe si se está utilizando alguna tecnología de maquinaria moderna para respaldar el proceso de cultivo y cosecha del kiwi? 🤔🚜
Cant wait to try the ruby red kiwi! 😁
Thanks for the subtitles on the kiwis talking about kiwi fruit. I had no idea what langauge they were speaking. Quite funny how the best stuff goes overseas and the locals have to eat the slightly defected ones
Not to mention that the reason they produce 600k tons of kiwifruit is NZ's PERFECT climate. An average temperature in NZ is around 20 degrees celsius the entire year, in most of the country, so it's good for both fruit and people to live there
~20°C year round?!!! I'm moving ASAP
Depends on where you live. If you're going to live where everybody else lives then yes, 20 degrees celsius. If that's too hot, you can always live in the breathtaking Southern Alpes. For me, 20 degress year around is perfect!
@@Liriq it's not, not even close. That's the average, but we are far enough from the equator to have significant differences between summer and winter
It's still good compared to other countries@@growtocycle6992
"New Zealand really does seem like a paradise for both kiwis and people! 🌏🍃 With such ideal conditions, it's no wonder they produce so much delicious fruit. Have you ever thought about visiting NZ to see the orchards for yourself?"
I just discovered that one can eat kiwis like an apple and not get sick. I always thought the tougher fuzzy skin would be bad for you but it's super high in fiber and a-ok to eat! Very excited about that! The skin makes them have a texture a little bit like biting into an apple and since I'm allergic to apples as an adult, it's a nice substitute for me. Nom nom nom. Also it's sky high in vitamin C and antioxidants so three cheers for the humble kiwi! I prefer the green ones myself as they are a bit tart and sweet.
wait- those kiwis can stay in the storage for 8 months and proceed to call it fresh?
Y have no idea how modern agriculture works do you? This is normal practice everywhere for everything.
Thats how modern agriculture works do u expect kiwis to get across the border to china in a week lmao. If you want "fresh" produce grow it urself.
@@bluedragon266 money hungry cnts. Picked green not ripe and sell the best to overseas ? Who are the owners of the company and shareholders
I have eaten apples that were in ULO cold storage for 24 months. A bit bland but none would have been any wiser without knowing the age.
@@michaelhtgk all kiwifruit growers will have different sugar content in their fruit, higher the taste (sugar content) the more money you'll make, and usually when fruit is put in cold storage it delays the curing of the fruit so you need to leave it out in ambient temp for it to ripen up, as soon as it gets soft it should taste more sweeter usually
I love these people some much, they allow me to enjoy the delicious kiwi fruit
I HAVE A CONFESSION: I eat these with the skin on.......
🤯
I hope you wash them first?
Me too, I love it.
When these were first introduced locally, they sold them as a kiwi you can eat without peeling.
That's one of the advantages of gold over green
glad this came out before my exams, i can use this as my case study xd
So the guy who did the work to bring sungold to the market gets only a plaque but a company gets to sell the license for insane price
Lol
womp womp ours now hahaha
The overhead harvesting looks arduous. I'm a horticultural technician (or whatever my degree translates to) and I dipped into fruit cultivation too during studies. Picking apples already was nasty but those were not overhead. Mad respect for the kiwi pickers.
Textbook example on why Monopolies are bad, they artificially constrict supply to drive up prices which hurt consumers and in this case farmers as well.
Yes, though in the case of a specific fruit, it’s an optional purchase that can be substituted with other non monopolized options. The monopoly in this case is funding the research that takes decades and wouldn’t happen if anyone could just grow it when they’re done. So it’s a monopoly on something that wouldn’t exist without the monopoly. It’s not insulin. And the single exporter model is used by many countries so they don’t get growers undercutting each other for export and driving themselves out of business. The whole reason there are farmers of the fruit in NZ at all is because it can be profitable, but it’s not profitable without the monopoly for export.
yeap its a bloody cartel
Wait till you hear about NZ's other agricultural (near) monopoly - Fonterra. Accounts for 30% of the world's milk exports.
They are AMAZING!! Currently my favorite fruit.
Crazy to think that the person who made the specific gold kiwi doesn't get anything for it yet the Zespri company can decide who can grow it for cash lol. Seems like a pretty huge monopoly.
I think he probably was working for someone else when he made it, using their money, etc. If he wasn't funded by them, he probably wouldn't have been able. I still think you shouldn't be able to patent a fruit, though.
@@MDuarte-vp7bm you definitely should be able to patent fruit, it is genetically modified and to do something like that is not cheap. if a company does R&D and produces a new product others should not be allowed to profit off it for free
@Anorexic_Clown Unreasonable, unless you can control the pollen or spores from being spread by the wind.
@@MDuarte-vp7bm pollen or spores has nothing to do with which variety of kiwifruit is grown.
green is the only kiwifruit that grows from its own plant where as sungold and ruby red needs to be grafted onto the green plant. so yea it can be controlled as it has been since it was first introduced
@Anorexic_Clown Unreasonable. You didn't say a specific kiwifruit. You said fruit. It's the foot-in-the-door for bad.
Patent trolling through produce is a far bigger problem than a kiwi brand degrading in value. It's not worth it.
Great documentary!! Loved it am always up for learning something new ! The packing process is amazing and so interesting
Who would have thought that it originated from China and yet when I was in China there were no local farms producing it.
Not true. Some of those Chinese farms even stole some sungold to produce themselves.
The original Chinese fruit was a bit different, and the version known to everyone is the kiwi version. They used to be much smaller, hence the "berry" name.
China has many varieties of them grown, not just the green, yellow and red ones.
@@edwinwan4306 I think its under a different name. Tried google it can't find any results.
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I understand why they changed to SunGold, but the fruit is ugly. The green kiwis is much better looking and works well for garnish and food decor. The SunGold is a complete miss on garnish and food decor. Plus the green is way cheaper.
The green is way cheaper because anyone can grow green kiwi without fear of legal action for doing so.
@@Mike__Bthey don’t grow true to seed so even if you wanted to do so without regard to the IP you’re not going to grow them from seed, you need a plant you can only get by stealing a graft too. But yes, infinite supply means a fruit farmers are going out of business growing.
@@peter65zzfdfh See now there's something I can get behind as far as protecting your rights, if someone actually steals something from you then they shouldn't be able to profit from it.
And sure infinite supply means farmers go out of business, but there wouldn't be infinite supply because as more sell price goes down and yeah you get to a point where it isn't profitable to sell and you sell something else, it really does regulate itself without the need for patent lawsuits.
Similar argument in the US with farmers "unable to make a living" when you can import stuff from south of the border where labor is significantly cheaper, etc etc etc. Yet farmers still exist in the US.
Hahsha. Gold is not ugly. It's stunning.
I went to NZ last November and Kiwi fruit is more expensive there than here in Australia. The Kiwi fruit from Italy is cheaper than Kiwi fruits from NZ.
Even New Zealand has huge monopolies. Making farmers pay thousands for a license to grow is insane.
It's not so crazy when you take into account the millions they spent to develop the golden kiwi
Not crazy if they just let everyone grow the golden kiwi it would lose value making the crop not as worth while. Pretty smart actually.
Thanks for the video. Very interesting!
Why are there English subtitles for people speaking English?
lol Americans can’t understand the New Zealand accent
@@needleontherecord- Yup, thet En Zud ick cent is pruddy thick aye
Because if English isn't your first language, some accents are largely unintelligible. It's not to disrespect, it's just to accommodate those less fluent.
@@needleontherecordNot everyone watching is American.
@@MDuarte-vp7bm I bet you that a lot of them are though, the creators of this vid are also mainly an american company so yeah.
They were very informative and, at the same time, entertaining.
I read somewhere that NZ had accused China of stealing kiwi.
NZ should ask where they got their Kiwi in the first place.
As I recall someone was caught trying to smuggle some cuttings out of NZ, some new varieties they were working on - might have been the gold one for all I know as it was quite a while ago.
because they did, they stole about 6000 hectares worth of trademarked sungold cuttings which can be grafted. This equals to about 6000 x $800,000 (per hectare for license) = $4,800,000,000 NZD worth of sungold license iirc. And we can't do anything about it because China could stop trades with NZ for kiwifruit and considering China is our biggest clients, it would impact us massively.
@@dawuid1491We have put in the work to breed unique variants of kiwifruit from the original Chinese Gooseberry. That makes them different fruit and means they can be trademarked, which I believe they are. This is the reason China cannot take our kiwifruit variants without license, they are not the same as the original fruit that we brought to NZ.
@@francoismurrell4604 nope food shouldnt be trademarked its a necessity not a want
I am a kiwi grower i lived in auckland as a child we had chinese gooseberrys on the frount lawn that was 1972 they where old established plants
sungold are literally just kiwi 2. theres actually no reason to buy greens anymore. sungold are just better in every way. most consistently high quality fruit to date
Green tastes better...
this is the one of the fruits I've never eaten but I'll love to
So the inventor of the sungold gets no pay cut but the monopoly exporter company decides who can grow them and auctions the licenses out for a MASSIVE profit? did I heard that right? Thats corruption right there.
That's the New Zealand way!
I just had these, they have black seeds. they were so delicious.
green kiwi: Too hard, strong stem in the middle. Gold kiwi: Soft, sweet, easy to eat. Kids favorite by far.
Sun gold is perfection. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or what ever gold version comes to the states. At a reasonable price. It is very good.
Better than the title I thought of "How Monsanto like tactics allow a New Zealand company to patent nature, and sue people who try to grow anything they make without paying licensing fees that they get to determine who has"
If they spent millions on breeding different varieties, then breeding these varieties with another one, and again and again until they found one that was perfect to their liking, do you really believe they shouldn't be able to benefit from it? Why would anybody go through that much hassle otherwise?
Even monsanto (which is completely different to this story) doesn't force anybody to buy their products. That story about about lawsuit against farmer that accidently grew one seed was also completly fake. I don't know much about them except that part but I know if people need to spread misinformation about how evil they are then something is fishy
@@Matt-bp5vy Why they would go through all of that is irrelevant, but if you want an answer it's because they know is because they know they can be legally protected. The bottom line is if you buy a fruit are are you simply licensing that fruit for flavor and/or nutrition it provides? The seeds in it are off limits and you must dispose of them in a way that does not allow them to germinate? This pushes very deeply into the "you don't really own it" level of arguing.
As for the story of the "accidental" growing, yeah that's not what I was talking about, I was alluding to them suing anyone who somehow got their seeds and grew plants without paying for a license to use those seeds, mostly due to saving seeds from crops something that has been fundamental to farming since the birth of farming. And that absolutely is true and has happened considerably more than "that one time". That said Monsanto was bought by Bayer and Bayer largely let the brand disappear, probably due to backlash of the name, but presumably Bayer continues similar practices as Monsanto does.
Found the CCP shill
@@Matt-bp5vy There is a reason Monsanto is considered the most evil company on earth, you are wrong.
It seems I got a profitable strategy... Thank you very much for teaching stuff like this!
I worked in the tepuke kiwi fruit fields but only did it a few weeks as it was terrible work and pay, around the same time I was in the supermarket and they had golden kiwis that were from Italy, even tho tepuke is the kiwi fruit capital of the world, we don’t even keep the best product for our selves, what a joke!
My sister her inlaws owned both kiwi fruit and gold kiwi
in the Bay of Plenty.. Love gold kiwi..
In NZ we are sold worse kiwifruits, and by law they have to be more expensive than the rate we sell to anyone overseas
I flipped when I heard that, ridiculous! Same over here in Australia with our produce, it’s a god damn scam I tell ya
@@albertsaffron7582 Not quite the same, but I read an article in the past about US beef production and how most of the top quality beef is sold overseas. Leaving and even importing worse quality for domestic consumption.
Even more interesting, to me anyway is oil. We produce enough crude oil to be oil independent but have the wrong type of refineries. We produce mostly light crude but our refineries mainly process heavy crude since they are old and built back when we had to import more. So...we sell most of our light and easier to refine crude to other places and import the harder to refine heavy crude.
@@donaldsill8274 import the heavy crude from my home province of Alberta 👍 USA imports is why we have the best living standards in Canada
thats fucked up. im so happy they re around 50-80 cents here... i buy them every time at the grocery store. they should be cheaper if produced in your country
That's complete bs. Kiwifruit are cheaper in NZ than anywhere else
Need more Kiwi!! :D
They didn't include how much the workers make. Whenever a company or bussiness purposely avoids talking about their employee wages, you know it's almost slave labor.
I Googled it, they get paid an average of NZ$18 per crate. On average, 2 people can fill 1 crate every hour. Let's say there are 10 people.
10 people fill 5 crates every hour. If they work 8 hours, that's 40 crates. Multiply by NZ$18 that's NZ$720. Divide by 10 people, that's NZ$72.
Then, divide by 8 since they worked 8 hours that day. Each individual makes NZ$9. Minimum wage in NZ according to google is NZ$18.25 - NZ$23.25.
If my numbers are correct, they basically have your modern equivalent of slave labor.
Min wage in NZ is #$20 ph they make more than that. probably arounf $40
Same thought. It'd have been an eigth wonder of the world if there was any indigenous or a person of color been in a supervisor position at least in this video. Modern slavery has a new term - Work visa.
@@disco1974ever min wage is $23
I think you are wrong with your numbers. We don't have slave labour in New zealand, the govnment would be in to stop it.
Regardless of how much they pick, by law, they cannot be paid an equivalent of less than $22.70 NZD per hour. You’re basically not allowed to employ anyone for less than the minimum wage, even as a contract worker. So your price per crate is way off or they’re way faster than you think. The reason foreign labour augments local labour isn’t to save money per hour of employment, it’s because they get more done per hour and are able to show up in large numbers for 6 months of the year. Locals don’t want jobs for only 6 months a year, even though the *average* they get paid is >$28 NZD /hr, fairly substantially above minimum wage.
They come, make good money for the picking season, and return home to where that money will be comparatively quite a lot to live on.
Love these stuff
1 minute no views, business insider fell off.
your internet fell off
I discovered the golden kiwis a while ago and they are AMAZING!! I don’t want the green any more lol!❤❤❤❤
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I prefer green kiwis, though the sungolds are definitely better than the old yellows. I have yet to see a red one in person.
The gold kiwi are so delicious! I haven't had a green kiwi since the first time I tried a gold one.
Latest scoop on NZ is Comvita driven to the ground by David Banfield and his boy toy Andy Chen 😂😂 not to mention accounting "irregularities"😂😂😂😂
New Zealand has made this original Chinese fruit their national treasure investing every single bit of energy, time and money to make it continuously better. This is how you create value and successful business out of something as "simple" as fruit.
9:45 Spain andPortugal are big markets🎉
Kiwis are amazing
Now i want to try a red kiwi!
very informative! thank you for the great story!
I was just eating a green one, and went through the trash to search for the tiny sticker I threw out without looking at it. Indeed is Zespri, nice job kiwis, getting me the kiwis!