ACTINIDIA CULTIVATION
Actinidia plantations occupy a total of some 60,000 hectares worldwide, a land area yielding a production of more than 800,000 tons. As well as Europe (Italy, France, Greece and Spain and New Zealand), the fruit is also cultivated in Chile, the United States, Australia, Japan and Korea.
The world's largest kiwi producer is Italy, where each year an average of 300,000 tons of kiwi are grown on a land area of about 19,000 hectares. The actinidia plant is found all over the country, but 80% of the surface occupied is concentrated in four regions: Latium (6,000 hectares), Emilia-Romagna (4,500), Piedmont (3,000) and Apulia (1,500).
The variety most widely grown (95%) is the Hayward, while the remaining 5% are made up of strains such as Bruno, Koryoku and Top Star.

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