As the popularity of the fruit soars, growers in the Bay of Plenty have been forced to resort to extreme lengths to protect their crop from thieves
It was the wrong side of dawn when the makeshift alarm sounded, its shrill whirr slicing through the frigid winter night. Ashby Whitehead sprung from his bed and ran to his ute, hoping that his homemade booby traps had finally paid off.
“I’d set up surveillance systems, a car alarm and tripwires but when it came down to it I wasn’t fast enough to catch them,” says Whitehead, an avocado grower whose orchards have been targeted five years in a row.
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