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| | FOXNews.com - Farmers Try to Strike Gold With New Kiwi - Business And Money | Business News | Financial News (via ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Although California remains a minor player in the global kiwi market compared to New Zealand, Italy and China, the fruit is expected to be about a $23 million crop in California this year, up from about $18 million in 2002, said Marilyn Kinoshita, deputy agriculture commissioner for Tulare County. |
 | | Before kiwis were introduced as a crop here in the early 1960s, the fruit had long been a delicacy in China before seeds were sent to New Zealand at the beginning of the 20th century. |
 | | Caplan renamed the fruit kiwi after New Zealand's brown, fuzzy bird, at the suggestion of a broker who got her the fruit after a missionary returning from New Zealand asked her for Chinese gooseberries. |
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