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Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Michael Woodhouse has welcomed the launch of the government's Safer Farms programme.

ALMOST ONE-QUARTER of agriculture, forestry, and fishery workers had a work-related injury claim accepted by ACC in 2013, Statistics New Zealand says.

ACC WILL be talking with farmers in several key rural areas next month, to help get a better understanding of the work farmers do, and the challenges they face in their day-to-day activities on the farm.

ON-FARM deaths are on the decline, with both WorkSafe NZ and ACC statistics showing a declining trend in fatalities since 2008, Federated Farmers says.

RURAL COMMUNITIES will be better represented on local councils as part of a major reform package announced last week by former Local Government Minister Nick Smith.