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Speaker 1: More good news for our economy. Been a record season

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Speaker 1: as it turns out for Kiwi fruit. Not quite over,

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Speaker 1: but it's coming to an end. One hundred and ninety

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Speaker 1: million trays six hundred and eighty four thousand tons have

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Speaker 1: been exported to fifty different markets. Final shipments of the

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Speaker 1: Green and the Sun Gold they're off in the coming weeks. Now.

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Speaker 1: The CEO, Jason Debraca, is with this. Jason, very good.

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Speaker 2: Morning to you, Monnie White. How are you very well?

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Speaker 1: Indeed you're new to this particular job.

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Speaker 2: You're loving it, Yeah, I am. Actually it's going well

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Speaker 2: and the season's tracking pretty well as well. So about

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Speaker 2: three months into the role, but being more sccessful about four.

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Speaker 1: Years fantastic sixty two charter vessels tell me the shipping story,

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Speaker 1: how successful, how unincumbered are we shipping wise these days?

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Speaker 2: So we've got a pretty strong charter program. So we

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Speaker 2: do about half of our fruit on charter vessels, and

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Speaker 2: it actually helps us get fruit to the market quickly,

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Speaker 2: helps us reliability to supply and actually our customers give

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Speaker 2: us really strong feedback. It's one of our main points

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Speaker 2: of difference.

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Speaker 1: Good so we don't have supply chain issues as they

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Speaker 1: say they've.

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Speaker 2: Resolved themselves quite a lot a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 2: Still some challenges around some of the reports here, but

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Speaker 2: that's most to do with the line of vessels coming.

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Speaker 1: In China up forty percent? Are they back?

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Speaker 2: China's economy is still a little bit sluggish. What we've

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Speaker 2: found is we've been able to outperform the category and

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Speaker 2: outperform the economy quite well. Just good strong brand and

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Speaker 2: good quality fruit into the market and good demands for

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Speaker 2: Kiwi fruit.

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Speaker 1: Okay, the big important question now is the Ziji. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the vote. You're going to have a vote, and you've

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Speaker 1: had a vote before for people who don't follow this.

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Speaker 1: You had a vote before in the grays Wooden back.

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Speaker 1: You will they this time?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I believe we will. We're only putting it full

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Speaker 2: because we've got really strong confidence that the support we've

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Speaker 2: had over the last three to four months has been

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Speaker 2: really good, so we believe that we can get across

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Speaker 2: the line on this. We've had really good engagement with

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Speaker 2: the industry for a good three or four months now,

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Speaker 2: and I've been part of actually designing the proposal, so

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Speaker 2: we feel confident that there's good support there there.

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Speaker 1: Press forward if you're right. What's changed between this vote

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Speaker 1: and the last one.

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Speaker 2: There's actually quite a few things. You know. We've been

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Speaker 2: able to focus really strongly back on our New Zealand

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Speaker 2: business and getting good returns through our New Zealand Girls

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Speaker 2: the last two seasons, so girls are comfortable for that.

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Speaker 2: But we've also changed the proposal and how we've gone

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Speaker 2: through that so that girls have been actually at the

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Speaker 2: center of the discussions, been involved in designing the proposal

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Speaker 2: and had really good feedback was this where along the way,

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Speaker 2: So it's a bit more of a collaborative process we've

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Speaker 2: been through this time.

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Speaker 1: Good to explain to the people who don't follow, there's

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Speaker 1: four hundred and twenty additional hectares of sun gold across Italy, France, Japan,

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Speaker 1: South Korea and Greece. Does that solve our problem in

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Speaker 1: the year round thing and all the cheats out there

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Speaker 1: trying to rip us off?

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Speaker 2: It helps what we've got At the moment, we're up

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Speaker 2: against the full limit that we can plant based on

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Speaker 2: what we've currently got approved, so for us to continue

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Speaker 2: to compete in our off season, we need to be

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Speaker 2: able to continue to plant more outlet that production. So

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Speaker 2: it does help us in that.

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Speaker 1: You've got a vibe for twenty five. All we don't know.

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Speaker 2: Look looking pretty positive to twenty five, so we think

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Speaker 2: the crop might be up slightly so a bit more

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Speaker 2: fruit to sell. But the market's actually finishing really strongly

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Speaker 2: at the moment, in strong six or seven weeks. So

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Speaker 2: usually when you see a good end of the season,

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Speaker 2: they can flow until a good beginning as well, so

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Speaker 2: I'm quite optimistic at the stage.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic good on You're nice to talk to. You appreciate

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Speaker 1: it very much. Jason de Branca, who's the new ish

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Speaker 1: head of or CEO of zespriing good news for the economy.

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