Police probe into Zespri-owned sungold kiwifruit plant material sent to China 警方調研陽光金果流入中國

Police probe into Zespri-owned sungold kiwifruit plant material sent to China 警方調研陽光金果流入中國

Police probe into Zespri-owned sungold kiwifruit plant material sent to China警方調查Zespri擁有的運往中國的陽光金果獼猴桃品種

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Zespri is trialling its own kiwifruit orchards in Shaanxi province. Orchard manager Bao Liangshuai with Zespri's Shane Max.

Zespri正在陜西省試驗自己的獼猴桃果園。果園經理鮑良帥與Zespri的Shane Max合作。

▲yellow kiwi planting

Zespri says gold kiwifruit varieties have been grown in China since 2012, in breach of the New Zealand co-operative's plant variety rights.

澤斯普里說，自2012年以來，中國一直在種植黃金獼猴桃品種，這違反了新西蘭合作社的植物品種權。

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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.

警方正在調查品種Gold3和Gold9的植物材料是否從新西蘭運到中國。

▲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營銷經理戴夫·考特尼（Dave Courtney）說，這家總部位于陶朗加的合作社去年4月收到了關于在中國種植和銷售非Zespri水果的消息，并開始了自己的調查。

Gold3, the new gold kiwifruit setting export records.Gold3，新金獼猴桃創(chuàng)出口紀錄。

▲陽光金果獼猴桃果園

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積極維護其對這些品種的權利，開發(fā)這些品種可能需要10年時間。它根據(jù)國家向種植者出售許可證，這些許可證只能在同一國家內轉讓，但須遵守每個許可證的規(guī)定。

▲寶石紅獼猴桃花粉

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.

獼猴桃種植者最近支付了高達每公頃20萬美元的中間價，以獲得種植這種廣受歡迎的新品種的許可證，主要是在豐盛灣地區(qū)。

▲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.

該系統(tǒng)允許Zespri從許可證中獲得收入，但也允許其密切管理生產，這有助于其全球營銷。

▲Kiwi pollination

"Our belief is the plant material came from New Zealand, but we don't know whether it was cuttings or plants.

“我們相信這些植物材料來自新西蘭，但我們不知道是插條還是植物。

▲陽光金果G3獼猴桃

"We can't speculate on who would have done it and we can't say where the discovery in China was made," Courtney said.

考特尼說：“我們不能猜測是誰干的，也不能說這項發(fā)現(xiàn)是在中國哪里發(fā)現(xiàn)的?！薄?/p>

▲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已經在陜西省建立了自己的獼猴桃種植試驗基地，并在那里建立了獼猴桃“卓越中心”。陜西是世界上獼猴桃產量最多的省份，占中國獼猴桃總產量的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月完成了盡職調查，并將證據(jù)交給了新西蘭警方，以幫助他們進行調查。

▲G3金獼猴桃

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.

考特尼說，這些品種在中國的種植面積約為100公頃，但他認為這不會對SunGold的前景產生任何實質性影響。事實證明，該品種深受消費者歡迎，尤其是在亞洲。

▲陽光金果G3獼猴桃

"The volumes are immature, there's no large scale production. We're not aware whether they have been sold using the Zespri labelling."

“數(shù)量不成熟，沒有大規(guī)模生產。我們不知道它們是否使用Zespri標簽銷售。”

▲陽光金果G3獼猴桃

Kiwifruit growers had been informed on Monday, and were "very supportive" about Zespri's determination to safeguard its plant variety rights.

周一，獼猴桃種植者得到通知，他們“非常支持”Zespri維護其植物品種權的決心。

Zespri chief operating officer Simon Limmer said it was taking "concerted action to protect and control its intellectual property".

▲佳沛黃肉獼猴桃

Zespri首席運營官西蒙·利默（Simon Limmer）表示，該公司正在“采取一致行動保護和控制其知識產權”。

"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的植物品種權是重要的知識產權，是通過多年的大量投資開發(fā)的。雖然在這種特定情況下，種植規(guī)模可能相對較小，但我們對我們發(fā)現(xiàn)的任何違規(guī)行為都是零容忍的，無論它們發(fā)生在何處，”利默說。

▲獼猴桃傘形棚架

Courtney said many years ago the Chinese had grown a previous Zespri-owned gold variety, Hort16A, in breach of plant rights.

考特尼說，許多年前，中國人種植了一種以前由澤斯里擁有的黃金品種Hort16A，這違反了植物權利。

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