It takes years to perfect cultivars and to keep New Zealand's kiwifruit industry ahead of the game. Country Life takes a tour of the Kiwifruit Breeding Centre in Te Puke and meets those helping create the fruit of the future.

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• Matt Glenn, Amardeep Nath, Megan Wood, and Thomas Paterson

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