Displaying items by tag: Ministry for Primary Industries

It was once jokingly said that the next most-important job after the All Blacks coach is the head of the Ministry for Primary Industries.

Martyn Dunne retired last week as the director-general of the Ministry for Primary Industries after five years in the role and 50 years in the public service. 

Farmers are being warned of potentially lower milk prices this season.

The Ministry for Primary Industry is sinking $5.3 million into a seven-year $13.25 million venture to breed new hop cultivars to expand the New Zealand craft beer industry. 

The future of New Zealand’s primary export sector will depend on its ability to respond to an evolving trading environment.

The Government has acknowledged that all was not right in MPI’s handling of the M. bovis crisis.

New Zealand’s primary industry export revenue is forecast to reach $43.8 billion for the year to June 2019, an increase of 2.5% from 2018.

It is now legal to sell raw (unpasteurised) drinking milk to consumers. 

Affected growers claim that the release of 20,000 apple and 400 stonefruit plants from containment vindicates the position they have taken since the start of the issue.

A review is underway of the NZ dairy herd improvement regulatory regime.