KVH – and our growers – are in a good position tomeet current and future biosecurity challenges.新西兰KVH董事长2024年度报告内容
▲Kiwifruit Vine Health (KVH)Simon Cook Grower Representative and Chair
Firstly, I want to acknowledge how difficult the last year has been for many of us. Poor bud breaks,storms, frosts and floods have done significant damage to vines and crops across the industry. It is pleasing to note that as a whole we’rve bounced back with a record crop being harvested, however this will hide the fact that for a number of growers,there is a long path to recovery in front of them.
首先，我想承认，去年对我们许多人来说是多么困难。糟糕的芽裂、风暴、霜冻和洪水对整个行业的葡萄藤和作物造成了重大损害。令人欣慰的是，总体而言，我们已经反弹，收获了创纪录的作物，但这将掩盖一个事实，即对于许多种植者来说，他们还有很长的复苏之路。
▲New Zealand Kiwi Orchard
The poor growing season last year also stretched to industry organisations who all suffered with the significantly reduced crop. KVH was no exception and at the start of the year was forecasting a loss for the current year in the vicinity of $700k. I would like to acknowledge the leadership of our Chief Executive Leanne Stewart, and her team, who have done a great job of managing costs, whilst still delivering the high levels of service that is expected of KVH, and in the end made a saving of $280k during this period.
去年糟糕的生长季节也延伸到了行业组织，他们都受到了作物大幅减产的影响。KVH也不例外，年初预测本年度亏损约70万美元。我要感谢我们的首席执行官Leanne Stewart及其团队的领导，他们在管理成本方面做得很好，同时仍然提供了KVH所期望的高水平服务，并在此期间节省了28万美元。
▲New Zealand Kiwi Orchard
While there is a lot outside of our control, and always will be, we are doing all we can to increase our readiness and preparedness and achieve the best possible outcomes for the kiwifruit industry.
虽然有很多事情是我们无法控制的，而且永远都是，但我们正在尽一切努力提高我们的准备和准备，为猕猴桃行业取得最佳成果。
▲▲golden kiwifruit vine
When we talk about “being prepared” in the biosecurity space, it isn’t centred around having one plan at the KVH office and opening it when we need to, telling people what to do. We’re here to help you, our grower members, post-harvest facilities, and industry organisations we all interact with, to understand what could be at risk if we aren’t vigilant to spot, and then ready to react, to any new, harmful pest or disease. Likewise, with support of growers last year, KVH now works in the Emergency Response Management (ERM) space to ensure the industry is prepared and can be resilient against future severe adverse events that impacts vine health.
当我们谈论在生物安全领域“做好准备”时，它并不是围绕着在KVH办公室制定一个计划，并在需要时打开它，告诉人们该做什么。我们在这里帮助你、我们的种植者成员、收获后的设施和我们所接触的行业组织，了解如果我们不警惕地发现并准备好应对任何新的有害害虫或疾病，可能会有什么风险。同样，在去年种植者的支持下，KVH现在在应急响应管理（ERM）领域工作，以确保该行业做好准备，能够抵御未来影响葡萄藤健康的严重不良事件。
▲Golden kiwi growing zone
It’s about everyone having a place in biosecurity and emergency preparedness and being accountable, so that we can protect what we’ve got and keep our orchards, businesses, and communities safe and productive.
这是关于每个人在生物安全和应急准备中都有一席之地，并承担责任，这样我们就可以保护我们所拥有的东西，并保持我们的果园、企业和社区的安全和生产力。
▲The girl picking kiwifruit male flowers
As such, much of our work in this readiness space is undertaken in collaboration with others, as you’ll read in articles on pages 16. KVH has long been an active and influencing partner in the Government Industry Agreement for Biosecurity Readiness and Response (GIA), creating clear plans in advance for how we – KVH, other industry groups, and government – jointly respond to specific incursions, including cost-sharing.
因此，正如您将在第16页的文章中看到的那样，我们在这个准备空间的大部分工作都是与其他人合作进行的。长期以来，KVH一直是《政府-行业生物安全准备和应对协议》（GIA）中积极和有影响力的合作伙伴，为我们——KVH、其他行业团体和政府——如何共同应对具体入侵，包括成本分担，提前制定了明确的计划。
▲使用锂电池的猕猴桃电动授粉机
GIA celebrated its 10-year anniversary this May, and you’ll see in the article reflecting on this that there are numerous continuing benefits for kiwifruit growers.
今年5月，GIA庆祝了成立10周年，您将在文章中看到，猕猴桃种植者将继续受益匪浅。
▲sungold g3 kiwifruit vine
Collaboration is also key to how we practice our responses. We talk about exercises on page 10, in particular “Exercise Tracey” which was run alongside Biosecurity New Zealand and Onside at the KVH Symposium in 2023. Over 100 people in the room that day – from across the kiwifruit industry and wider biosecurity roles in and outside the region – teamed up to work through an immersive simulation of an incursion of Ceratocystis Wilt in Te Puke.
协作也是我们如何练习反应的关键。我们在第10页讨论了演习，特别是2023年KVH研讨会上与新西兰生物安全局和Onside一起进行的“演习追踪”。当天，来自猕猴桃行业和该地区内外更广泛的生物安全角色的100多人在房间里合作，对特普克的威尔特角鲨入侵进行了身临其境的模拟。
▲红心猕猴桃种植
With so much wide-ranging experience and skillsets in the room, not only do these exercises hone our response expertise, but they also bring forth another important element of readiness. New questions, new “what ifs”, creating new queries, and finding new ways of answering what can often be quite complex questions.
房间里有这么多广泛的经验和技能，这些练习不仅磨练了我们的应对能力，还带来了另一个重要的准备因素。新问题，新的“假设”，创建新的查询，并找到新的方法来回答通常非常复杂的问题。
▲佳沛在国内销售的进口红心猕猴桃
This is invaluable. Being a grower myself, I know how important it is to feel confident that not only are we capable to respond appropriately, but we’re also capable of pivoting and changing with new and emerging risks and challenges. In a response (as many of us will recall from Psa and perhaps other incursions you’ve been involved in) this can happen every day.
这是无价的。作为一名种植者，我知道自信是多么重要，我们不仅有能力做出适当的反应，而且有能力随着新的和新兴的风险和挑战而调整和改变。作为回应（我们中的许多人会记得Psa，也许还有你参与过的其他入侵），这每天都会发生。
▲贵州高山猕猴桃种植喜获丰收
Which brings me to what can often be the backbone or foundation of a biosecurity response.
Science and research. When events are regularly changing, situations evolving, and prediction becoming increasingly important to limiting on-orchard impacts, we continue to turn to our research – and our research partners – for input.
这让我想到了生物安全反应的支柱或基础。
科学和研究。当事件经常发生变化，情况不断演变，预测对限制果园影响变得越来越重要时，我们继续向我们的研究和我们的研究合作伙伴寻求意见。
▲刚完成授粉的红心猕猴桃幼果
The kiwifruit industry biosecurity research portfolio is of particular interest to the KVH Board, and innovation is one of the priorities of KVH’s organisational strategy. From page 17 onwards you will see summaries of several projects undertaken within this portfolio over the last year, their scientific findings, and practical output.
猕猴桃产业生物安全研究组合是KVH董事会特别感兴趣的，创新是KVH组织战略的优先事项之一。从第17页开始，您将看到过去一年该项目组合中开展的几个项目的摘要、他们的科学发现和实际产出。
▲sungold g3 kiwifruit vine
KVH and Zespri Innovation collaboratively fund and support this research portfolio. Without it, we’d very likely find ourselves on the back foot and unable to catch up if we were knee-deep in an incursion.
KVH和Zespri Innovation共同资助和支持这一研究组合。如果没有它，我们很可能会发现自己处于劣势，如果我们陷入膝盖深的入侵，就无法赶上。
▲盛开的猕猴桃花
The case studies we’ve included in this Annual Update prove that by investing in science and innovation we improve our knowledge and understanding of biosecurity threats and create better tools for responding so that we lessen impacts.
识和理解，并创造了更好的应对工具，从而减少了影响。
They also demonstrate that sometimes, especially in cases of unusual symptoms being seen on vines, the various research projects and people we have as resources to refer to, help effectively and quickly ascertain whether something is new to New Zealand versus newly discovered, any new variants at play, and how widespread, or not, it may be.
我们在本年度更新中包含的案例研究证明，通过投资于科学和创新，我们提高了对生物安全威胁的认
他们还表明，有时，特别是在葡萄藤上出现异常症状的情况下，我们可以参考的各种研究项目和人员，有助于有效快速地确定新西兰的新事物与新发现的事物、任何新的变异，以及它可能有多普遍。
▲刚完成授粉的红阳猕猴桃幼果
Neonectria microconidia is a great example of how KVH investigated a new detection and worked with Zespri Innovation and research providers to deliver knowledge to understand the organism; provide management advice; and then transitioned this knowledge into the crop protection space.
微小新蜜环菌是KVH如何研究新检测方法并与Zespri Innovation和研究提供商合作提供知识以了解该生物体的一个很好的例子；提供管理建议；然后将这些知识转移到作物保护领域。
▲sungold kiwi orchard
I strongly believe that the organisation is in a position this year, and going forward, to meet all its goals on behalf of kiwifruit growers and help ensure a ready and resilient kiwifruit industry.
Thank you to the KVH team and my fellow Board members for another successful year and your continued dedication.
我坚信，该组织今年和未来都有能力代表猕猴桃种植者实现其所有目标，并帮助确保猕猴桃产业的准备和弹性。
感谢KVH团队和我的董事会成员再次取得成功，并感谢你们的持续奉献。
▲Newly pollinated young kiwifruit from Hongyang
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