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OPINION: The new government has clearly signalled big cuts across the public service.
Biosecurity Minister Damien O’Connor is celebrating a new milestone in the fight against wilding conifers.
Increasing reports of weevil damage to vines in Marlborough, Hawke’s Bay and Wairarapa led researchers to ascertain the culprits.
Taranaki Regional Council and the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) have joined forces to identify the pathways by which new pest plants could enter the region, whether by road, rail, coast or air.
The Government is tightening up its biosecurity settings following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Indonesia and also the recent discovery of viral FMD fragments on pork imported into Australia from China.
Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is on the hunt for biosecurity champions as entries open for the 2022 New Zealand Biosecurity Awards.
The Government has committed an investment of $4 million over four years to expand a biosecurity readiness and response app developed by Onside Ltd.
An $111 million injection for biosecurity in Budget 2022 is a pragmatic acknowledgement of how vital it is to New Zealand’s economy that we stop pest organisms at our borders, says Federated Farmers.
The Government will strengthen New Zealand’s biosecurity system as part of Budget 2022, Biosecurity Minister Damien O’Connor announced today.
Four years into a world-first attempt to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis), agreed jointly between the Government and farming sector groups, just one infected property remains in New Zealand.
New Zealand pig farmers are being encouraged to have their say on a proposal to sign an agreement with the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) to help protect the sector in the event of a biosecurity incursion.
OPINION: The new government has clearly signalled big cuts across the public service.
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