There's gold in this kiwifruit of the vine 猕猴桃树的果实里有金子
Quality control: Staff at DMS Pukepack scrutinise leaves for scale insect damage.
质量控制：猕猴桃包装厂的工作人员仔细检查树叶是否有鳞屑虫害。
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If a kiwifruit plant died and went to heaven, it could do worse than choose Te Puke as its final resting place.
如果一株猕猴桃植物死了，上了天堂，它可能会比选择Tu puke作为最后的安息地。
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Free draining volcanic and alluvial soils enable vines to send their tap roots 15 metres deep into the earth to soak up moisture from aquifers.
排水良好的火山土和冲积土使猕猴桃根系能够插入15米深的土壤中，以吸收含水层中的水分。
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Sunshine hours are among the highest in the country, rainfall is plentiful, even the topography does its bit. In winter and spring numerous gullies draw cold air away from elevated orchards, minimising the risk of frosts.
日照时间是全国最高的，雨量充沛，即使是地形也能发挥作用。在冬季和春季，无数的沟渠将冷空气从高高的果园中抽走，将霜冻风险降至最低。
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Pure gold: John Cook, with the new gold variety of kiwifruit that has been grafted on to the old rootstock.纯金：约翰·库克，在老砧木上嫁接了新的阳光金果猕猴桃品种。
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Kiwifruit grower John Cook's vines are 40 years old and he has not yet had to replace them.
猕猴桃种植者约翰·库克的猕猴桃树已经40年了，他还没有更换。
"It's both a strength and weakness of our kiwifruit that we don't refresh the vines," he says.
“我们不更新葡萄藤既是我们猕猴桃的强项也是弱项，”他说。
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In Italy the ground is humped and hollowed before planting in order to keep the vines' roots from getting too wet and rotting. Even so, the vines are replaced every eight to 10 years.
在意大利，在种植之前，为了防止藤蔓的根部变得过于潮湿和腐烂，地面被隆起和抬高。即便如此，猕猴桃树每八到十年更换一次。
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New Zealand's chief kiwifruit competitor, Chile, has its own challenges. Last year a catastrophic frost devastated its crop. Normally it produces 180,000 tonnes of kiwifruit but last year's harvest plummeted to 100,000 tonnes. This compares with New Zealand's 350,000-tonne total, four-fifths of which is the green variety.
新西兰猕猴桃的主要竞争对手智利也有自己的挑战。去年一场灾难性的霜冻毁坏了它的庄稼。正常情况下，它生产18万吨猕猴桃，但去年的收成暴跌至10万吨。相比之下，新西兰的总产量为35万吨，其中五分之四是绿色品种。
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A veteran of the kiwifruit business and a director in packers DMS Pukepack, Cook has ridden the highs and lows of the industry, now worth $904.6 million a year in exports.
库克是猕猴桃行业的老手，也是DMS水果包装厂的董事，他经历了该行业的高潮和低谷，现在每年的出口价值为9.046亿美元。
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Perhaps his greatest trial was the arrival of the Psa virus, which devastated the gold variety in particular - the biggest earning variety - when it arrived toward the end of 2009.
也许他最大的考验是猕猴桃溃疡病病毒的到来，当它在2009年底到来时，它摧毁了黄金奇异果品种，尤其是收益最大的品种。
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"It cost a third of our business. I had to sell houses and shares. We are all unhappy about it but proving it in court will be a big challenge," Cook says.
库克说：“这摧毁了我们三分之一的猕猴桃果园。我不得不卖掉房子和股票。我们都对此感到不满，但在法庭上证明这一点将是一个巨大的挑战。”。
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The case Cook refers to is a claim for damages against the Government recently filed in the High Court. It charges that officials were negligent in allowing pollen infected with Psa to be imported.
库克提到的案件是最近向高等法院提出的对政府的损害赔偿要求。它指控官员在允许进口感染猕猴桃溃疡病的花粉时疏忽大意。
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Cook is not one of the plaintiffs involved in the case.库克不是本案的原告之一。
Most growers are trying to put Psa behind them, and with the help of the new Gold3 variety, they are succeeding.
大多数种植者都试图将Psa抛在身后，在新品种阳光金果G3猕猴桃品种的帮助下，他们取得了成功。
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Not only does Gold3 have a higher tolerance to Psa than the Gold16A it replaced, it has proved to be a third more productive.
阳光金果G3猕猴桃不仅对猕猴桃溃疡病的耐受性高于它所取代的Gold16A（也就是黄金奇异果），而且它的生产效率也提高了三分之一。
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Cook is looking forward to a good harvest this year. Brix (sugar) levels are equivalent to last season's, which itself was a bumper harvest. "It's been a season of two halves - we had a windy, wet spring but a hot, dry summer," he says.
库克期待今年有个好收成。糖度水平相当于上一季的糖度水平，而上一季本身就是一个大丰收。“我们有一个多风、潮湿的春天，但夏天又热又干，总之克服的困难多多”他说。
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Immediately Psa hit, some growers were advised to cut out the diseased parts of the plant and graft Gold3 on to the old rootstock. Unfortunately it was at the height of the growing season, and the plants did not take kindly to the treatment.
猕猴桃溃疡病一出现，一些种植者就被建议砍掉猕猴桃的患病部分，并将阳光金果G3猕猴桃移植到老砧木上。不幸的是，当时正是猕猴桃生长季节的高峰期，嫁接成活率并不高。
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Growers who waited until the vines were dormant achieved more success.
等到猕猴桃休眠再嫁接，种植者取得了很高的成活率。
Bee pollination costs $3000 per ha but growers also artificially pollinate their plants. They take male flowers, process them into a powder and blow them on to the female flowers.
蜜蜂授粉的成本为每公顷3000美元，但种植者也为他们的猕猴桃人工授粉。他们把猕猴桃雄花加工成粉末，然后吹到猕猴桃雌花上。
Cook has modified a leaf blower for the purpose, although he says artificial pollination is not the equal of bees.
库克为此改装了一台吹风式猕猴桃授粉机，尽管他说人工授粉不等于蜜蜂。
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For those who have managed to remain in the industry, the rewards are returning.
对于那些设法留在猕猴桃行业的人来说，付出终于有了回报。
Green kiwifruit orchards now sell for $350,000 a ha, and gold for $500,000 a ha, higher than before Psa hit. And growers are being paid more for their crops.
绿色猕猴桃果园现在的售价为35万美元/公顷，阳光金果果园的售价为50万美元/亩，高于猕猴桃溃疡病上市前的价格。猕猴桃种植者获得更多的报酬。
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In the December 2014 forecast, green orchard gate return per tray had increased to $5.91 - the highest per-tray returns since 2003.
在2014年12月的预测中，绿心猕猴桃种植园每个托盘的回报率已增至5.91美元，这是自2003年以来的最高回报率。
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The forecast organic green per tray was $7.09, while the forecast gold price was $9.72.
预测每盘有机绿奇异果售价为7.09美元，而预测阳光金果每盘的销售价格为9.72美元。
Cook, who has experienced kiwifruit's turbulent "teenage years", welcomes the stability that has been achieved by the industry.
库克经历了猕猴桃动荡的“青少期的躁动”，他对猕猴桃产业实现的稳定表示欢迎。
* The writer's travel costs were paid for by Zespri.
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