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Pipfruit NZ calls for coordination or regulation
New Zealand
Wednesday 07 November 2007
A repeat of the price-crash of apples can be avoided through better grower-marketer cooperation, says Ian Palmer of Pipfruit NZ.
Ian Palmer, the chairman of representative organisation Pipfruit New Zealand, has called for an improvement in the coordination between growers and marketers, in a bid to avoid a repeat of the price collapse that has plagued Braeburn apples in the country this season.
Mr Palmer, speaking to Radio New Zealand, explained that growers have shipped too many over-sized Braeburns to Europe, despite the knowledge that large apples are unpopular in the European market.
And he has not ruled out the possibility of returning to a system involving regulated control on exports.
He said: "I'm just starting to wonder whether we need to actually regulate to protect ourselves from ourselves. We have to get more cooperation happening within the industry, and in the end if we require some regulation to do that, then that's what we need to seek."
Ian Palmer, the chairman of representative organisation Pipfruit New Zealand, has called for an improvement in the coordination between growers and marketers, in a bid to avoid a repeat of the price collapse that has plagued Braeburn apples in the country this season.
Mr Palmer, speaking to Radio New Zealand, explained that growers have shipped too many over-sized Braeburns to Europe, despite the knowledge that large apples are unpopular in the European market.
And he has not ruled out the possibility of returning to a system involving regulated control on exports.
He said: "I'm just starting to wonder whether we need to actually regulate to protect ourselves from ourselves. We have to get more cooperation happening within the industry, and in the end if we require some regulation to do that, then that's what we need to seek."
