Greens concerned trade deal will compromise local food standards
Green Party agriculture spokesman Steffan Browning has expressed concerns about the deal being done to secure a place in the Trans Pacific Partnership.
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Finance Minister refuses to back kiwifruit growers
The Minister of Finance has refused to support kiwifruit growers with banking guarantees to help them reconstruct the industry in the face of Psa-V.
Kiwifruit disease will cost NZ more than $1 billion
Psa-V, the bacterial infection of kiwifruit vines that has devastated the industry since it sneaked past biosecurity to infect orchards in the Bay of Plenty, is expected to cost the country more than NZ$1 billion.
Pick local urges avocado producer
Avocado processor Fressure Foods has called on New Zealand food service operators to consider local avocado supplies when buying.
New Zealand has a reasonable presence at Vinexpo Hong Kong
For the first time New Zealand has a reasonable generic presence at the Vinexpo Asia-Pacific fair being held next month (May) in Hong Kong.
Another bank joins Psa research funding
The global Kiwifruit Vine Health / Zespri Psa Research and Development Programme, has gained the sponsorship of the ANZ National bank.
Keith’s Take: We need an innovation injection
This week’s story about small to medium sized enterprises, SMEs, being the innovation driver behind Europe’s food and beverage sector was a sobering one for New Zealand. Not because New Zealand’s food sector is dominated by large players, but because that domination is supported by Government, to the detriment of the commercial creativity of our largest export sector.
SMEs are food industry inspiration
According to FoodDrinkEurope, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are the inspirational “backbone” of the European food and beverage industry.
Maori kiwifruit exporters open with culture in Japan
The Zespri Tokyo trade conference, launching the new kiwifruit sales season in Japan, opened today ( April 10) with a traditional Maori powhiri.
New ENZA owners could shed local jobs
The new German ownership of Turners & Growers, owners of the ENZA pipfruit brand, could mean an end to fruit packing jobs in New Zealand.
New Turners and Growers’ management wants co-op with Zespri
The new management team at Turners and Growers wants to “bury the hatchet” with Zespri and co-operate with the kiwifruit industry body in the future.
NZ’s leading NHP company welcomes new legislation
NZ’s largest natural health products company says the three-year transition time for the introduction of a regulatory regime governing the manufacturing, marketing and exporting of natural health products is “too long”.
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