Displaying items by tag: HORTICULTURE NZ

Vegetable growers will be taking a hit from lost production this year because of the wet weather, says Horticulture NZ’s chief executive Mike Chapman.

The $5.6 billion horticulture industry is a big contributor to New Zealand’s economic wellbeing.

The farming sector has its head in the sand if it doesn’t realise water is a huge issue waiting to be tackled, says Labour’s primary industries spokesperson Damien O’Connor.

A pilot scheme helping ex-prisoners and other offenders to find work in the horticulture industry is succeeding and will be expanded, says Corrections Minister Louise Upston.

Giving consumers what they want ensures at least two things: that they’ll pay a premium for the product, and that it will sell out.

Submissions are now open on the Consumers’ Right to Know (Country of Origin of Food) Bill until May 18 – with backing from NZ Pork and Horticulture NZ.

Mandatory labelling of fruits and vegetables is back on the public agenda.

Horticulture NZ was reluctantly preparing for an injunction on the Waikato Healthy Rivers Plan Change submissions last week, after attempts to reach agreement with the council failed.

Last year (2016) was one of growth for horticulture.

A level playing field is what Horticulture NZ, Federated Farmers and other primary organisations want from a judicial review of Waikato’s ‘healthy rivers’ plan change.