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The market of persimmon fruits in Australia is expanding in line with consumer's strong interest in functional healthy foods, increased immigrants from Asian countries and its exporting market expansion. However, it is hard to expect the Australia’s main sweet persimmon varieties, ‘Fuyu’ and ‘Jiro’, to meet the expanding market needs, due to their limited harvest period. Therefore, the Australia's persimmon growers want the new varieties with various harvest times, and are trying to introduce Korea-bred new sweet persimmon varieties, such as ‘Fantasy’, ‘Gampung’, ‘Wonmi’ and ‘Wonchu’. Presently, ‘Fantasy’ and ‘Gampung’ have obtained patents for cultivar protection in Australia, and their local adaptability test is underway. ‘Wonmi’ and ‘Wonchu’ have also been applied for cultivar protection patent in Australia. In future, all these, due to their early and medium-maturity fruits and excellent quality, are expected to be the new key persimmon varieties in Australia.

Although Taiwan produces small fruits on a small scale, it is famous for its production techniques and systems. Only two types of small fruits are economically produced in Taiwan: the grape and strawberry. Four other types (the mulberry Morus alba L., the bayberry Myrica rubra Sieb. et Zucc., the Indian gooseberry Phyllanthus emblica L., and the kiwifruit or Chinese gooseberry Actinidia chinensis Planch. var. setosa and A. deliciosa Ferg.) have production areas of less than 100 ha. Taiwan has been developing production techniques for fruits such as the blueberry. In 2017, Taiwan had production areas of 2,828.6 ha for grapes, 500.33 ha for strawberries, 67.56 ha for mulberries, 31.17 ha for bayberries, and 14.19 ha for kiwifruit. The development of new small fruit crops demands new culture methods and strategies. It is important to breed or select new small fruits from the native germplasm when introducing new foreign varieties. Some special conditions, such as breeding the blueberry plant with a short chilling requirement, are needed. Further, new culture systems such as year-round production for grape, mulberry, and strawberry have been tried. Although Taiwan has cultivated grapes for wine production for over 40 years, new grape cultivar breeding programs for wine production have been introduced.