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HORTICULTURE NEW ZEALAND believes this country's ability to control regional biosecurity risk is woeful and there are few signs of any willingness to improve.

EVERY MOVE to slow the reform of the Resource Management Act makes business more uncertain for commercial fruit and vegetable growers.

Figures just released show New Zealand's border protection is good, but still does not measure up to the standard the New Zealand horticulture industry, and the Government, expect.

Fruit and berry grower Julian Raine has been elected president of Horticulture New Zealand.

Andrew Fenton, the president and chair of Horticulture New Zealand since it was established in 2005, will not seek reappointment as president following HortNZ's annual general meeting in late July.

THE HOT dry summer is a boost for horticulture, but growers too need rain in the next few weeks.

Border officials sent two foreign air passengers packing last Friday after they tried to smuggle seeds through Auckland airport.

Horticulture New Zealand and the Tararua Growers Association welcome the sensible words of Primary Industries Minister David Carter concerned about the estimated cost of a recent Environment Court decision on farmers and growers.

Growers and horticulture producers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of continuing to fund their industry good organisation, HortNZ.

Horticulture New Zealand's survival depends on a levy vote which closes in a week.