NZ Feijoa Growers Association members are proud of the product they grow and market. The Association is this year starting a progrgramme which identifies growers who have agreed to produce their fruit to the highest quality level.

This level has been set out in the NZFGA grade standards and includes quality controlled touch picking, handling and grading standards, storage and transport standards. Fruit from these growers will therefore arrive in the marketer at this standard. from there it is the marketer's and the retailer's responsibility to store and handle the fruit with utmost care.

If fruit supplied to you arrives in damaged condition, please in the first instant contact the marketer you purchased the fruit from and in the second instant the grower providing you with their fruit.

For storage and handling guides for the retailer and wholesaler please click here

The growers who have signed the NZFGA supply agreement which assures their product to be of the highest quality are listed below, with the relevant standards wto which they are certified, or comply.

Glossary of terms

Grower number as allocated by NZ GAP or Organic Certification authorities (see below)

NZFGA picking standards are the Associations picking standards - viewable here

NZ GAP is a quality assurance programme that provides a traceable, accountable system from crop to customer,

Grow safe The NZ Agrichemical Education Trust's training programme which follows principles of safe, responsible and effective agrichemical application,

Organic certified means the grower is certified by Agriquality NZ, Bio-Gro NZ, or The Bio Dynamic Farming and Gardening Association,

Spray diaries means the grower keeps a full and accurate diary of all sprays which are applied to their feijoa crop,

Pesticides free means no pesticides used on fruit or trees (sprays can be used to keep weeds down and trees can be sprayed with micro nutrients when they are not in fruit),

Fruit chilled means fruit is chilled to 4ºC within 8 hours of picking.