Seeka Kiwifruit Industries Limited has announced that it has completed kiwifruit packing operations in Australia and New Zealand for the 2016 season, handling record volumes with more than 30m trays handled in New Zealand for the first time.
The group said that it was now heading into the storage and inventory management portion of the season in New Zealand, while at the same time completing its kiwifruit sales program in Australia.
The Australian pear selling season is anticipated to complete in October.
New Zealand volumes handled by Seeka were up by 16.6 per cent year-on-year at 30.8m trays. This figure included approximately 700,000 trays that will be removed from the inventory or at time of packing, through crop management.
All volumes have been handled within the company’s infrastructure, and Seeka now moves to managing more than 16M trays in store.
Australian kiwifruit volumes, at 580,000 trays were behind expectation by approximately 109,000 trays, but sold well in the market, the group noted.
Nashi pears continue to be packed out and the selling programme is expected to be completed in October.
