Grape Industry Analysis for Investment and Redevelopment

Sultana types
Raisin
Currant
6.1.1 Hectares of bearing and non-bearing dried grape varieties
Figure 29 shows the area (hectares) of bearing and non-bearing dried grape varieties from 1997
to 2014.
The non-bearing areas give an indication of the popularity of different varieties in each season.
Figure 29: Hectares of bearing and non-bearing dried grape varieties 1997 to 2014
Variety
1997 (ha) 2003 (ha) 2006 (ha) 2009 (ha) 2014 (ha)
bearing
Nonbearing
bearing
Nonbearing
bearing
Nonbearing
bearing
Nonbearing
bearing
Nonbearing
Black Gem - - - - - - - - 1 1
Carina 148 35 150 107 242 159 316 22 345 17
Zante 308 18 186 0 128 0 33 0 23 0
Gordo 250 21 168 10 132 54 139 22 151 3
Waltham 170 2 87 1 58 4 35 0 28 0
Diamond Muscat - - - - - - - 5 6 38
MenindeeSeedless 7 6 14 5 17 1 14 1 11 4
Merbein Seedless 30 2 18 4 21 1 15 1 10 1
Selma Pete - - - - - - - - 2 7
Shirana - - 2 5 6 27 27 0 26 0
Sultana 6,587 336 4,221 781 3,864 86 2,449 73 2,206 48
Summer Muscat - - - - - - - 2 9 1
Sunglo - - - - - - - - 1 25
Sunmuscat 7 10 140 222 360 68 425 55 535 71
Other 13 0 9 1 9 0 2 4 7 5
Total hectares 7,520 430 4,995 1,135 4,835 400 3,455 185 3,360 220
% bearing/non-bearing 95% 5% 81% 19% 92% 8% 95% 5% 94% 6%
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