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Pressure won't prompt honey review
12 June 2017
The Ministry for Primary Industries won’t review the science behind its manuka honey definition because of lobbying by industry players, Food Safety Minister David Bennett says.
MPI to help boost exports
8 June 2017
A Government spend-up will enable trade growth and help reach its aspirational 2025 export target, Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy says.
Primary sector workforce growing
22 May 2017
The primary sector workforce is growing with most of the new jobs in support service roles rather than onfarm, an updated Primary Industries Ministry report shows.
MPI wants emissions control numbers
22 May 2017
Rigorous economic analysis is needed of options, including putting agriculture in the Emissions Trading Scheme, to show how the agricultural sector can mitigate its carbon footprint, the Primary Industries Ministry says.
Officials accused of meat issue go-slow
12 May 2017
A meat trader has spoken of his frustration at foot-dragging by officials, which he says has robbed the New Zealand meat industry of access to the Chilean market for the best part of a decade.
RBNZ sees milk prices falling
11 May 2017
The Reserve Bank still expects dairy prices to give up some of last year’s gains as a brief supply shortage rights itself.
Landcorp committed to new strategy
11 April 2017
State-owned enterprise Landcorp Farming is sticking to its guns as it pursues a strategy focused on moving away from volatile mass agricultural commodity products and towards higher-value markets and products.
Management changes cause delay
10 April 2017
Management changes have been blamed on the slow development of a national certification system that could work across regulatory and certifying agencies in the primary sector.
Govt said no to Pamu
28 March 2017
The state-owned farming company Landcorp has confirmed it wanted to change its name to reflect its new business strategy but was rebuffed by the Government.
Land Information fails test
27 March 2017
Land Information New Zealand has again failed to address the Auditor-General’s recommendations on measuring its non-financial value.
