Investors Hope: Term Growers and Export Trial

investors hope: The industry is aiming to show NSW is free of the pest Queensland fruit fly during the cherry growing season, according to Australian Broadcasting Corporation. But in the short term growers and investors hope an export trial with NSW irradiated cherries to Indonesia will convince China. Cherries from mainland Australian growers are only allowed into China by a slow sea journey with the fruit subjected to cold treatment of one degree, to wipe out pests. Co-founder Wise Cap Funds Management, Kobe He, believes there is a bright future for the NSW and Victorian cherry industry. "If we can use the irradiation pilot to prove to the Chinese government that using this technology gets rid of the flies, there are certainly opportunities to start talking to the Chinese government to see what we can do," said Mr He, whose clients include Chinese and other Asian investors. Photo: Traps for Queensland fruit fly are being monitored at 17 cherry businesses in NSW Department of Primary Industries plant bio-security officer Lloyd Kingham said there was already a large body of evidence to show Queensland fruit flies did not breed or lay until the end of the southern NSW cherry harvest. "What we've done is put out a whole heap of Queensland fruit fly traps on 17 different cherry businesses across southern NSW to prove the theory," Mr Kingham said. Cherry season fruit fly free In the long run NSW growers hope a fruit fly trapping program will show the region is free of the endemic pest during the cherry season. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.