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Consumer research has revealed 72% of people in Asia see dairy as an important part of a balanced diet. However, the research also shows less than half of the 9000 people surveyed in nine countries are eating dairy on a daily basis.

A focus on relationships with some of China's leading dairy brands is earning accolades for Canterbury's Synlait Milk Ltd (Synlait).

A resolution has been agreed which should see authorities clearing New Zealand meat exports to China from next week, Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy says.

'Mixed messages' about meat blocked at the Chinese border adds to the suspicion there's more to the issue than the Government is letting on, says Labour Primary Industries spokesman Damien O'Connor.

Federated Farmers is hopeful an administrative issue affecting New Zealand meat exports to China will soon be resolved.

Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy has signed a strategic plan on promoting agricultural cooperation between New Zealand and China.

MANY SHEEP and beef farmers will need to arrange bank help to carry them through the drought, says Professor Keith Woodford, Lincoln University.

In what has to be one of the most novel ways of promoting a wine region, the Ningxia Wine Challenge has also provided the local province with an abundance of international knowledge.

A China-based subsidiary company of Zespri has pleaded not guilty to charges of criminal smuggling related to alleged under-declaration of customs duties by independent importers in a Shanghai court yesterday.

Fonterra has today signed an investment agreement with Yutian County, to develop two more large-scale dairy farms in Hebei Province.