BAYGOLD Limited, a large-scale kiwifruit operation, has taken out the Supreme title in the 2016 Bay of Plenty Ballance Farm Environment Awards.

Owned by shareholders and directors who make up equity partnership Baygold Joint Venture partnership, BAYGOLD Ltd owns two Te Puke orchards totalling just over 100ha – Coach Road Orchard and La Vigna – and expects to harvest 1.4 million trays of G3 kiwifruit this season. This is a massive increase on the 30,000 trays harvested in 2013 when the kiwifruit industry was hit by the devastating vine disease, Psa-V