Whether you manage the orchard yourself or engage a Management Service Operator (MSO), the responsibility for all activities on your land ultimately rests with you.
Compliance Checklists
Grower responsibilities include ensuring ethical employment practices, legal compliance, and alignment with Zespri’s GLOBALG.A.P. and GRASP standards.
As a grower, you are ultimately accountable for people on your orchard.
Your role on your orchard
As the grower, you play a key role in how your business runs day to day. These tools are here to support positive conversations with your MSO, orchard manager, and seasonal workers — not to audit, but to encourage shared understanding and respectful openness. It’s all about protecting your reputation, staying on the right side of the law, and supporting the industry’s commitment to worker wellbeing and food safety.
We’ve heard from growers, asking for support to meet their obligations and work cohesively with their MSO’s. To make things easier and help protect everyone on your orchard, we’ve created three simple checklists:
Compliance resouces
Governance and industry partners
NZKGI values strong relationships with our governance bodies and industry partners, working together to support growers and the wider indsutry