Carrots Japan bound
BY
MARNIE
WOODD
Raetihi farmer Alf Alabaster loads up another container with Waimarino carrots bound for the Japan market. This is the fourteenth load of carrots being shipped from Napier to Japan. Once they reach Yokohama the carrots are unpacked, rescrubbed, washed and repacked in 500 gram bags. One carrot retails for between 90 cents and $NZ1 in a Japanese supermarket. The carrot seed was supplied by the Japanese fmporter and to Mr Alabaster's knowledge it had never been commercially grown in New Zealand before.
Six other vegetable crops are being trialled at present and if they're successful are expected fit in well with local market gardeners. Mr Alabaster expects the carrot exports to double next year. He doesn't grow carrots himself, he farms sheep and cattle and exports cut flowers to Japan, but buys the carrots from Ohakune and Raetihi growers.
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 10, Issue 454, 22 September 1992, Page 3
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145Carrots Japan bound Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 10, Issue 454, 22 September 1992, Page 3
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