Police probe into Zespri-owned sungold kiwifruit plant material sent to China警方调查Zespri拥有的运往中国的阳光金果猕猴桃品种
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Zespri is trialling its own kiwifruit orchards in Shaanxi province. Orchard manager Bao Liangshuai with Zespri's Shane Max.
Zespri正在陕西省试验自己的猕猴桃果园。果园经理鲍良帅与Zespri的Shane Max合作。
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Zespri says gold kiwifruit varieties have been grown in China since 2012, in breach of the New Zealand co-operative's plant variety rights.
泽斯普里说，自2012年以来，中国一直在种植黄金猕猴桃品种，这违反了新西兰合作社的植物品种权。
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Police are investigating whether plant material of the varieties Gold3 (Zespri SunGold) and Gold9 (Zespri charm) was sent from New Zealand to China.
警方正在调查品种Gold3和Gold9的植物材料是否从新西兰运到中国。
▲sungold kiwi growing zone
Zespri marketing manager Dave Courtney said the Tauranga-based co-op was tipped off in April last year about non-Zespri fruit being grown and sold in China and had begun its own investigations.
Zespri营销经理戴夫·考特尼（Dave Courtney）说，这家总部位于陶朗加的合作社去年4月收到了关于在中国种植和销售非Zespri水果的消息，并开始了自己的调查。
Gold3, the new gold kiwifruit setting export records.Gold3，新金猕猴桃创出口纪录。
▲阳光金果猕猴桃果园
Zespri zealously guards its rights over the varieties, which can take 10 years to develop. It sells licences to growers on a country-by-country basis, which can only be transferred within the same country subject to the rules of each licence.
Zespri积极维护其对这些品种的权利，开发这些品种可能需要10年时间。它根据国家向种植者出售许可证，这些许可证只能在同一国家内转让，但须遵守每个许可证的规定。
▲宝石红猕猴桃花粉
Kiwifruit growers have recently paid out a median price of up to $200,000 per hectare each for licences to grow the sought-after SunGold variety, mainly in the Bay of Plenty region.
猕猴桃种植者最近支付了高达每公顷20万美元的中间价，以获得种植这种广受欢迎的新品种的许可证，主要是在丰盛湾地区。
▲Yellow kiwi orchard
The system allows Zespri to earn revenue off the licences, but it also lets it manage production closely, which assists its global marketing.
该系统允许Zespri从许可证中获得收入，但也允许其密切管理生产，这有助于其全球营销。
▲Kiwi pollination
"Our belief is the plant material came from New Zealand, but we don't know whether it was cuttings or plants.
“我们相信这些植物材料来自新西兰，但我们不知道是插条还是植物。
▲阳光金果G3猕猴桃
"We can't speculate on who would have done it and we can't say where the discovery in China was made," Courtney said.
考特尼说：“我们不能猜测是谁干的，也不能说这项发现是在中国哪里发现的。”。
▲New Zealand zespri Kiwifruit
Zespri has been establishing its own trial sites to grow kiwifruit in Shaanxi Province, and a kiwifruit "centre of excellence" is being set up there as well. Shaanxi produces the most kiwifruit in the world, between 40-50 per cent of China's total.
Zespri已经在陕西省建立了自己的猕猴桃种植试验基地，并在那里建立了猕猴桃“卓越中心”。陕西是世界上猕猴桃产量最多的省份，占中国猕猴桃总产量的40%至50%。
Zespri completed its due diligence in December 2016 and handed evidence to New Zealand police to help with their investigation.Zespri于2016年12月完成了尽职调查，并将证据交给了新西兰警方，以帮助他们进行调查。
▲G3金猕猴桃
Courtney said the area in China planted in the varieties was about 100 ha, but he did not believe that it would have any material impact on the outlook for SunGold. It is the variety which has proved popular with consumers, especially in Asia.
考特尼说，这些品种在中国的种植面积约为100公顷，但他认为这不会对SunGold的前景产生任何实质性影响。事实证明，该品种深受消费者欢迎，尤其是在亚洲。
▲阳光金果G3猕猴桃
"The volumes are immature, there's no large scale production. We're not aware whether they have been sold using the Zespri labelling."
“数量不成熟，没有大规模生产。我们不知道它们是否使用Zespri标签销售。”
▲阳光金果G3猕猴桃
Kiwifruit growers had been informed on Monday, and were "very supportive" about Zespri's determination to safeguard its plant variety rights.
周一，猕猴桃种植者得到通知，他们“非常支持”Zespri维护其植物品种权的决心。
Zespri chief operating officer Simon Limmer said it was taking "concerted action to protect and control its intellectual property".
▲佳沛黄肉猕猴桃
Zespri首席运营官西蒙·利默（Simon Limmer）表示，该公司正在“采取一致行动保护和控制其知识产权”。
"Zespri's plant variety rights are important intellectual property, developed through extensive investment over many years. Although the plantings may be relatively small scale in this specific case, we have zero tolerance for any breaches that we identify, wherever they happen," Limmer said.
“Zespri的植物品种权是重要的知识产权，是通过多年的大量投资开发的。虽然在这种特定情况下，种植规模可能相对较小，但我们对我们发现的任何违规行为都是零容忍的，无论它们发生在何处，”利默说。
▲猕猴桃伞形棚架
Courtney said many years ago the Chinese had grown a previous Zespri-owned gold variety, Hort16A, in breach of plant rights.
考特尼说，许多年前，中国人种植了一种以前由泽斯里拥有的黄金品种Hort16A，这违反了植物权利。
▲佳沛阳光金果
