How Far Would We Go For Knowledge? As Far As New Zealand

While China is the origin of wild kiwifruit, New Zealand growers, nurserymen and scientists pushed it from obscurity into becoming one of the world's top fruits. It took a lot of work and trials and this is why New Zealand became most sophisticated and knowledgeable in kiwifruit propagation, cultivation and marketing.

As we wanted to learn from them we decided to visit New Zealand where we saw and heard many useful things for our own orchard development. As one of our new friends told us we have "no excuses now". It will take 3 to 4 years to see if we made a good use of their advice and here we just give you some of photos of this fascinating trip.

countdown to 18 hour avia-marathon in Dubai airport

New Zealand, a country of volcanic icelands



Pacific Ocean "nebulising" the forest

Auckland, not the capital of New Zealand

Eden Park, "All Blacks" play here

Kiwifruit -- the reason of our trip