Horticulture

Sue Deadman has been growing vegetables for 30 years, specialising in carrots for more than 20. You can taste the difference between a sweet Ohakune carrot and those grown elsewhere in NZ, she says.

More data is needed before a blanket ban on the insecticides is considered in New Zealand, experts say.

Extremely wet conditions have made it very difficult to grow vegetables in the past few weeks, especially leafy greens, Horticulture New Zealand says.

Fields around Pukekohe are now striped with rows of onions, gently curing in the sun. They'll soon be heading into the packhouse where they'll be topped and tailed, graded and bagged for export.

A feijoa grower has found the crop-destroying guava moth breeding in the plant's flowers, which damages the fruit's development.

A new report shows that the Horticulture Industry has had a 40 percent growth in export earnings in just two years.

The Labour Party is calling for a review of the immigration system follow fresh claims of human-trafficking. Audio

New Zealand's exports could suffer if demand for horticulture workers isn't met, a primary industries training organisation says.

The potentially devastating giant willow aphid is moving to other hosts as well, including apple trees.

Horticulture has boosted export revenue over the past year, prompting the Ministry for Primary Industries to predict a 3 percent rise.

It cost the government more than $1 million per insect to eradicate the Queensland fruit fly, a potentially devastating pest species, from Auckland.

The Australian horticulture industry is worried that a new backpacker tax will drive most of their seasonal workers to New Zealand.