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Pea intake

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Pea intake

A truck tips its load of peas into an intake bin at Wattie’s processing plant in the Hawke’s Bay. The peas are inspected for foreign matter before being frozen, dried or canned.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Market gardens and production nurseries – Processed vegetables and seed production, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/20021/pea-intake (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.