Agricultural Development E-book

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Agricultural Development

the New ZeAlAnd

AdvAntAge

world leAding cApAbility in AgriculturAl educAtion,

trAining, reseArch And consultAncy


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New Zealands natural advantages include a

temperate climate and ertile soils that make

it ideal or almost all land-based production

rom sheep and cattle, to cropping,

horticulture, orestry and viticulture.

New Zealands geographic isolation has

resulted in a natural environment and

unique disease-ree animal populations.

Around the world, New Zealand is

well known or high regulatory standards,

quality assured production methods and

a long tradition o innovative research and

technology in agricultural development.

As a leader in addressing issues o

sustainability and environmental impact

in the management o its natural and ood

resources, New Zealands expertise is widelysought ater and applied by other countries.

New Zealand armers have always been quick

to adopt new methods and technologies,

building a long history o agricultural

excellence. With around 14 million hectares

o land in primary production and arming

systems that graze animals outdoors all year

round, New Zealand armers have pioneered

well adapted and eective systems to maintain

and improve pastures. There is a strong ocus

on animal health and welare and on natural

controls or pests, diseases and parasites.

New Zealand has achieved many world

frst agricultural innovations in areas

such as pasture establishment, soil

testing, soil and water conservation,

genetics, animal health, pest control,

milking, shearing and stock handling.

Agricultural products rom New Zealand

are also in global demand. This includes

meat, ruit, wine and dairy products.

New Zealand has the worlds lowest cost

dairy industry and its dairy cows produce

some o the worlds highest quality milk.

A long standing partnership between science

and arming underpins New Zealands

agricultural advantage. There has been

continuous investment over many decades in

research and development to improve armingsystems, productivity and sustainability,

and add value to New Zealands products.

The principles underpinning New Zealands

low-input, sustainable production systems

are suitable or a wide range o climates

and environments. By sharing its successes

and the inormation, expertise and

experiences it has accumulated over many

years, New Zealand is well placed to help

overseas partners revolutionise arming.

Agriculture is the bAckbone of

new ZeAlAnds economy. over neArly

two centuries, new ZeAlAnd hAs

developed world leAding fArming

And food production systems And

AssociAted knowledge And cApAbility.


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AgriculturAl educAtion And trAining

Agricultural development is a major

ocus or the New Zealand education

system with a range o tertiary institutions

oering specialised education and training,

at all levels, or work in the agricultural

sector. New Zealands universities areinternationally known or their agricultural

and horticultural qualications.

A national qualications ramework in

New Zealand provides quality assurance

or over 200 programmes or careers in the

agricultural industries. Education is available

at all levels, rom industry training and

technical and business qualications

through to graduate and postgraduate

study. Students have access to excellent

on-site acilities and are oered workplacement experience in the industry.

The expertise o teaching sta is outstanding

with most having had international

experience and maintaining a strong

network o connections across the world.

Other vocational and proessional courses

that ocus on practical learning are delivered

by state unded Institutes o Technology,

which work alongside industry training

organisations to ensure training is relevant,

innovative, and matched to changing industry

demands. Private training establishments

also oer a wide range o courses, designed

to deliver specic skill sets and knowledge.

The education oered is diverse with providers

specialising in areas ranging rom undamental

science, business and engineering or the

primary industries through to agritechnology,

animal science, biosecurity and environmental

development and sustainability or various

arming systems. There is powerul capability

in providing management training and

proessional development or senior sta

in the ood and agribusiness industries.

Training courses ollow best practice and

are benchmarked to well regarded and

internationally recognised undergraduate

and postgraduate degrees.

Many overseas students choose

New Zealand to study agriculture,

taking the skills and knowledge gained

back to their home countries.

New Zealand is also ideally placed to

tailor training in its agricultural models

and methods or other countries

through joint ventures, partnerships,

oshore campuses and e-learning.


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AgriculturAl reseArch And consultAncy

Over many decades, an extensive network o

research and development organisations in

New Zealand has gathered substantial, world

class knowledge about the pastoral industries.

This knowledge base continues to grow and

to be applied locally and globally by many

skilled and expert consultancy services.

Crown research institutes and universitiescarry out high quality science research

or New Zealand and overseas clients.

A quality evaluation system or university

research unding in New Zealand has

given an A rating to over 400 individual

researchers, signalling the world leading

calibre o their work in terms o originality,

signicance and rigour.

Private consulting companies also provide

agricultural expertise within New Zealandand oshore.

WhAt neW ZeAlAnd offers

High quality education and training in

agricultural development at all levels

with a practical ocus and deliveredin a range o settings.

Teaching sta with outstanding expertise

and experience in agriculture, horticulture,

orestry, agribusiness and other

supporting disciplines.

Best practice training courses delivered

in New Zealand or oshore.

Agricultural training models and methods

that can be easily adapted to help other

economies revolutionise arming.

Access to world class research and

consultancy services to propel pastoral

industries orward.

Further Information

To nd out more about agricultural

education, training, research and consultancy

in New Zealand visit the websites o the

organisations overlea, or contact your

nearest New Zealand Trade and Enterprise

oce: www.nzte.govt.nz


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Key orgAnisAtions

Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

The Ministry o Agriculture and Forestry(MAF) is the New Zealand government

agency responsible or sustainable economic

development o New Zealands agriculture,

ood and orestry sectors. MAF is also in

charge o biosecurity and ood saety.

MAF is responsible or maintaining

New Zealands stringent regulatory

regime which ensures the saety o

locally produced and imported oods.

It also manages biosecurity, protecting

New Zealand rom pests and diseases

through border control and eradication

and mitigation programmes.

MAF advises the New Zealand government

on a range o industries including

agriculture, ood and orestry and on issues

including animal welare, rural aairs,

biosecurity and ood saety. Its advice

eeds into policy covering the ull value

chain rom resources to market access.

In addition, MAF administers a Sustainable

Farming Fund or rural initiatives and

manages state owned orestry assets.

www.ma.govt.nz

Lincoln University

Capability in education, training and research

and consultancy

Lincoln University, near Christchurch, has

a proud heritage in agricultural education

spanning 0 years. Established in 878 asCanterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln

has evolved into a specialist university with

a strong ocus on land-based disciplines

and their associated industries.

Lincoln oers more than 500 course options

ranging rom certicate to degree level study

and specialist programmes at masters, doctoral

and post-doctoral level. Areas o ocus include

Agriculture, Agricultural Science, Agricultural

Commerce, Food Industry Commerce, Natural

Resources, Environmental Management,Science and Viticulture and Oenology.

As well as developing teaching strengths in

agricultural commerce, business and enterprise,

Lincoln has built close links with industry

groups and community interests ensuring

knowledge eeds into industry initiatives

and debate. The universitys programmes

have a strong ocus on sustainability.

Lincoln provides research, development

and consultancy services to industry and

government and its research centres are

at the oreront o international knowledge.

It hosts the National Centre or Advanced

Bio-Protection Technologies, the Centre

o Soil and Environment Quality and the

Isaac Centre or Nature Conservation.

The Agribusiness and Economics Research

Unit ocuses on the socio-economic impacts

o development and its work eeds into

decisions about trade negotiations,

environmental policy and industry policy.

Lincoln has academic alliances with

complementary institutions in Asia, the

Middle East, Europe and the Americas.

www.lincoln.ac.nz

Massey University

Capability in education and training

and research and consultancy

Massey University has an 80 year tradition o

academic excellence across a comprehensive

range o disciplines, ollowing its early

recognition as New Zealands premier

institution or land based science, teaching

and research. Today, the university continues

to play a lead role in adding value to the

agricultural sector in New Zealand.

The College o Science oers a wide range o

programmes rom certicate to postgraduate

level and has eight research-ocused Institutes

that address real-lie problems acing society

worldwide. Massey has world class standing

in the area o ood technology and hosts

the Institute o Food, Nutrition and Human

Health which researches advanced oods and

biological products. It is also home to the

Institute o Natural Resources which ocuses

on the study and management o ecosystems.


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The Institute o Veterinary Animal and

Biomedical Science is a world leader

in knowledge about animal health

and welare, biosecurity, conservation

and sustainable pasture production.

Massey is also highly regarded or

its programmes in agricommerce.

Masseys Bio Commerce Centresupports the commercialisation o

new knowledge in the science and

business communities by incubating

fedgling technology-based businesses

with potential to produce globally

competitive products and services.

Massey University has campuses at

Albany (Auckland), Palmerston North

and Wellington and a 40 year history

oering distance learning study

programmes to 7,000 students in

New Zealand and around the world.

www.massey.ac.nz

University of Canterbury


and research and consultancy

The University o Canterbury is

located in Christchurch, the South

Islands largest city. It has a tradition

o academic excellence and a strong

research culture. Canterbury oers

undergraduate and postgraduate

courses in over 50 disciplines.

Canterbury hosts specialist centres

ocused on bioengineering, aquaculture

and marine ecology, biosaety, wood

technology and is also home to the

New Zealand ICT Innovation Institute.

The School o Forestry at Canterbury oers

an internationally respected and unique

proessional orestry degree programmerom undergraduate to doctoral level.

The school has diverse research

interests and capability covering

areas rom orest harvesting, soils

and management to orest ecology

and wood and science technology.

Graduates are typically employed

in orestry and natural resource

management o native and plantation

orests in New Zealand and overseas,

processing and marketing woodand wood products and rural and

urban tree planting programmes.

Canterprise Limited, the universitys

commercialisation and knowledge

transer company, oers contract research,

consulting and the commercialisation

o intellectual property.

www.canterbury.ac.nz


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Unitec New Zealand


From its two campuses in Auckland,

Unitec New Zealand oers a portolio

o programmes across a range oproessional and vocational areas.

Animal health and welare is a key strength

and Unitecs degree programme in this eld

is delivered by a team o sta which includes

internationally recognised scientists and

veterinarians who are well connected with

relevant organisations around the world. A

Diploma in Veterinary Nursing and certicates

in animal care and management are also oered

and students are given many opportunities or

real world learning in the work place.

Other programmes at Unitec ocus on

conservation, foristry and training in

horticulture or people entering the

industry, and those wanting to urther

their career.

www.unitec.ac.nz

The Waikato Institute of

Technology (WINTEC)


Located in a catchment area o 6,000 dairy

armers, Wintec has been teaching agriculture

or over 25 years. Its main campus is in

Hamilton with satellite campuses in Auckland

and the towns o Thames and Te Kuiti.

Wintecs School o Science and Primary Industries

oers programmes in agriculture, amenity

horticulture, arboriculture, foristry, landscape

design and installation and veterinary nursing.

Its purpose built acilities include the

latest technology and it has a specialist

Horticulture Education Centre situated in

the world renowned Hamilton Gardens.

In partnership with other organisations,

Wintec delivers specialist distance and

e-learning or an expanding range

o high quality, ully assessed

courses and programmes.

www.wintec.ac.nz

Telford Rural Polytechnic


Dedicated to the primary sector,

Telord Rural Polytechnic has a 4 year

history o providing vocational trainingto support the rural community.

Located in the south o the South Island,

Telord is an 820 hectare property that

includes a number o arm units where

students learn practical arming skills.

These include dairy, sheep and arm

orestry units and a horticultural unit.

Education and training is oered at sub degree

level in arm management and agribusiness,

horticulture, orestry, apiculture, rural re

and rescue, equine studies and rural saety.

www.telord.ac.nz

Agriculture Industry Training

Organisation (AgITO)

Capability in education, training and consulting

The Agriculture Industry Training Organisation

is one o New Zealands largest ITOs, each

year helping more than 8,000 people to

develop careers in the agriculture industry.

Areas o ocus include dairy, sheep and

bee arming, agrichemical supply, pest

control, pork, poultry, rural servicing, wool

harvesting, articial insemination and herd

testing and water treatment and reticulation.

AgITOs expertise is being made available

overseas through a subsidiary company,

Agricultural Services Limited, which

also provides project management and

consulting services or the primary sector.

AgITO develops training and resources or

teachers o agriculture and horticulture

and works with leading industry groups

to develop training programmes that

bring best practice onto arms.

AgITO has developed an online

library o resources or agriculture

and horticulture education.

www.agricultureito.ac.nz


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New Zealand Industry

Training Organisation (NZITO)


The New Zealand Industry Training

Organisation provides analysis o training

needs and the development and delivery

o training programmes or the dairy,

meat and leather processing industries.

Its Dairy Industry Graduate Training

Programme develops young people with

the potential to become technical leaders

and managers in the dairy industry.

NZITO has developed ree e-learningresources in occupational health and

saety, dairy technology, meat processing,

competitive manuacturing and

communications. It also has training and

consultancy expertise in milk collection,

the process supply chain or dairy,

meat, leather and skin manuacturing.

NZITOs expertise is being applied oshore

in partnership with New Zealand dairy

company Fonterra. It is also expanding

its e-learning and consultancy networksto help transer New Zealand skills and

training capability to other countries.

www.nzito.co.nz

New Zealand Horticulture

Industry Training Organisation

(NZHortITO)


Since its establishment in 992, theNew Zealand Horticulture Industry

Training organisation has developed and

registered more than 400 horticultural

study units and oers eight national

certicates in horticulture.

It provides horticulture based training or

around 2,000 people at any one time with

students regularly assessed by qualied

workplace assessors and trainers.

Areas o ocus include ruit production,

nursery production, viticulture,

foristry and arboriculture.

NZHortITO has a growing international

ocus and is well placed to provide

industry-based horticulture training

programmes or overseas countries.

www.hortito.org.nz

Forest Industries Training andEducation Council (FITEC)


The Forest Industries Training and

Education Council is an industry-owned

organisation ocused on all aspects o

education and training or New Zealands

economically important orestry sector.

It provides quality assured qualications

in orestry, wood panels, pulp and

paper, tissue converting, solid wood

processing and urniture production.

FITEC oversees a diverse range o

orestry career pathways oered

through secondary schools, private

training establishments, industry

training and universities.

FITEC is exporting its expertise

in training and assessment

rameworks to other countries.

www.tec.org.nz


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National Trade Academy (NTA)


Based in Christchurch in the South Island,

the National Trade Academy oers courses

designed to prepare students or a careerin agriculture.

The NTA training arm has around 90 hectares

o land developed into a dry stock arm with

all students involved in developing and

managing livestock and the arm itsel.

NTAs training programmes ocus on dairy,

bee, deer or mixed cropping arming,

the equine industry, pest control,

orestry and parks and conservation.

Students are encouraged to build on

their training at NTA by completing

national certicates oered through

industry training organisations.

www.nta.co.nz

Agriculture New Zealand (ANZ)


Agriculture New Zealand Training is one

o New Zealands largest private training

establishments delivering agricultural and

horticultural training to more than ,000 learners

each year at 6 locations around the country.

The company provides high quality, accredited

courses on behal o industry training

organisations.

This includes programmes or arm and

orchard workers and owners, and agribusiness

and industry executives. ANZ provides a ull

year o training, in both theory and practice,

or careers in the dairy industry.

ANZ is a subsidiary o PGG Wrightson,

New Zealands largest rural servicing company.

www.pggwrightson.co.nz

Agresearch

Capability in research and consultancy

AgResearch is New Zealands largest

government-unded Crown Research

Institute and has ve specialist research

centres around the country.

Its activities are ocused on the sustainability

and protability o New Zealands pastoral

sector and developing and exporting

biotechnologies and systems.

The agriculture and environment science

and research group works with armers

to encourage the uptake o new systems

and technologies. AgResearchs applied

biotechnologies group specialises in genomics

and reproductive research to deliver bettergrasses and animals while its ood and textiles

group develops new products and technologies

to meet global demand. AgResearch also

carries out most o New Zealands wool

research and is developing new processing

and manuacturing capabilities or wool.

AgResearch collaborates with other

partners to host national research centres

in biosecurity and inectious diseases,

reproduction and genomics and animal health.

AgResearch is well connected internationallyholding research collaboration agreements

with more than 00 organisations around

the world and strategic collaborative

partnerships with a range o countries.

www.agresearch.co.nz

Hortresearch


HortResearch is a world leader in ruit research

using New Zealands unique resources and

sustainable production systems to provide

novel technologies and innovative products

with high consumer appeal.

The Crown Research Institute has

established one o the worlds largest ruit

gene and compound databases as well as

leading edge scientic capability in plant

breeding, tree, vine and ruit physiology.

Other areas o strength include crop

management and ruit quality optimisation,insect and disease control solutions, postharvest

and process technologies and developing novel

favours, ragrances and unctional oods.

HortResearch is dedicated to researching

ways o improving human health, wellbeing

and perormance. It works closely with industry

partners to identiy the intrinsic benets ound

within oods and determine how these can

be enhanced or extracted and delivered to

consumers in a sae, tasty and convenient way.

HortResearch is a partner in the NationalCentre or Advanced Bio-Protection

Technologies and provides its research

and consultancy expertise to a growing

number o international partners.

www.hortresearch.co.nz


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Crop & Food Research


Crown Research Institute Crop & Food

Research works with industry to create

the oods and beverages o the uture.

It uses its research and development

capability to help companies and

industries transorm high quality raw

materials into high value oods, beverages,

ingredients and other products. Crop &

Food Research also has growing expertise

in sustainable crop production.

Crop & Food Research has business

and research partners in New Zealand

and overseas and is ocused on a range

o areas including horticulture, arable

production, seaood, dairy products and

ood manuacturing and exporting.

The company aims to develop long

term relationships with its clients by

providing services that are timely,

ecient, relevant and easy to access.

Crop & Food Research has orged strong

links internationally with a range o research

networks, universities and research providers.

www.crop.cri.nz

Fonterra

Capability in research and consulting

Fonterra is responsible or more than a

third o international dairy trade, supplying

customers and consumers in more than

40 countries.

It is New Zealands largest private sector

investor in research and development

with a strong commitment to innovationand to working with external partners to

nd new products and technologies.

Fonterra has delivered many world leading

innovations in dairy processing and

manuacturing and in consumer products.

It owns ViaLactia Biosciences, a biotechnology

company that identies, discovers and

commercialises methods o selection and

genes important to the dairy industry.

It is also a partner in LactoPharma which

discovers and commercialises biomedical

components in milk to identiy new ood

ingredients, nutraceuticals and drug leads.

Fonterra is involved in a number o

environmental initiatives to improve

sustainability in the dairy industry.

The company has numerous ties with

New Zealand universities, research

organisations and businesses and is extensively

networked internationally through joint

ventures, partnerships and direct ownership.

www.onterra.com

Scion


Crown Research Institute Scion is ocused

on applying its deep knowledge o plantation

orestry, wood and bre to developing new

biomaterials rom renewable plant resources.

Major research areas include commercial

orestry, biomaterials and biomaterials

engineering and sustainable consumer products.

In addition to its research expertise in

materials that provide alternatives to synthetic

products, Scion has commercial units which

develop sotware or the orestry industry

and provide laboratory testing services

or soil, oliage, wastewater and wood.

Scion provides research and development

services to the orestry sector through

Ensis, a joint venture with Australias CSIRO

Forestry and Forest Products. Ensis haslarge expert teams capable o tackling

complex problems at a scale that will help

the sector remain globally competitive.

www.scionresearch.com

AsureQuality Limited

Capability in consulting

AsureQuality Limited is a certication

body with a 0 year history o providing

technically sophisticated and robust ood

saety and biosecurity services to the ood

industries in New Zealand and Australia.

The company employs specialist inspectors

and auditors who serve many industries

including horticulture, dairy, meat, ood

processing, water, arable and orestry.

AsureQuality delivers products and services

to more than 40 countries and maintains an

extensive suite o international accreditations

or certiying ood products and processes or

both conventional and organic operations.

It is the most qualied and internationally

accredited supplier o ood saety and

biosecurity services in the Southern Hemisphere.

www.asurequality.com


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LIC


LIC is a arm improvement company

owned by New Zealand dairy armers and

providing products and services to the

global dairy, bee and deer industries.

Its expertise ranges rom animal recording,testing and health management to

consultancy services, research and

development and DNA analysis.

LIC holds a unique national database

which oers traceability, world class

genetic improvement systems and

laboratory and automation solutions

or animal perormance management.

Based in the Waikato region, LIC has regional

bases around New Zealand, direct representationin Australia, Ireland and the United Kingdom

and agencies in other parts o the world.

www.lic.co.nz

PGG Wrightson


Drawing on the knowledge o 2,700 sta

and the expertise o diverse business

units, alliances and partnerships, PGG

Wrightson is New Zealands largest and

only nationwide provider to the agricultural

sector. The company also has growing

operations in Australia and South America.

PGG Wrightson (Seeds) is a major investor

in research. It has built up world leading

capability in seed and grain research and

development and delivers improved products

to armers through plant genetics, seed

enhancement and orage animal perormance.

The consulting arm o PGG Wrightson employs

highly experienced on-arm consultants

who help improve arm productivity and

protability. The consultancy team continuallyupdates its knowledge and expertise using

inormation sources and research rom

New Zealand and around the world.

PGG Wrightson has strong international

connections, developing products specically

or oshore countries, orming research

collaborations and exporting New Zealand

arming systems to other parts o the world.

www.pggwrightson.co.nz

AbacusBio


AbacusBio Limited oers expertise that

provides the bridge between science and

business in the areas o biotechnology,

agritechnology and agribusiness.

The company was ormed by a group o

internationally recognised scientists and

consultants with many years experience in

commercialising technological innovations.

It provides advice on strategic development

and investment, genetic improvement,

technology transer and commercialisation,

on-arm systems and project and company

management.


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Specialist sotware products developed by

AbacusBio are targeted at livestock breeders

and provide a suite o tools to maximise prots,

genetic diversity and business progress.

AbacusBio teams work in New Zealand

and internationally.

www.abacus.bio.com

Hill Laboratories


Hill Laboratories is New Zealands largest

privately owned testing laboratory providing

services to clients with a ocus on the

environment, agriculture, horticulture and the

production o ood and biological products.

It provides analytical testing services to gauge

environmental impacts, the make-up and

quality o soils, plant tissues and animal eed

and to certiy that ood producing companies

are meeting their regulatory responsibilities.

Hill Laboratories also provides specialised air

quality testing to ensure sae working conditions

or assess impacts on the environment.

Hill Laboratories has an approved

containment acility in New Zealand where

it can test samples rom any country.

The company is expanding its business

internationally, opening oces overseas

and working with global agrochemical

and veterinary drug companies.

www.hill-labs.co.nz

Gallagher Group


Gallaghers Animal Management Systemsdivision has a wealth o experience and

expertise in permanent and portable

animal control and animal management.

The company has a strong ocus on research

and development and has developed a

number o world leading technologies.

This includes SmartPower, intelligent

electric ence technology that automatically

adjusts power output onto ences and

generates alarms when intervention is

required. Other innovations include a solarpowered and environmentally riendly

energiser or electric encing systems.

Gallaghers is also known or its unique

weighing and electronic ear tag systems.

Gallaghers has distribution channels in

more than 0 countries and aims to be the

global leader in innovation, manuacture

and marketing o products and services

or animal and security management.

www.gallagher.co.nz

Innovation Waikato


The Waikato Innovation Park is dedicated

to strengthening innovation in the

regions world leading agritechnology

and agribiotechnology sectors.

Waikato has one o the highest ratios o

scientists per capita in the world with a quarter

o the research undertaken in New Zealand

occurring in this region.

Home to 50 companies who share business

and proessional services, the Waikato

Innovation Park is located next to the world

amous Ruakura Research Centre, a centre

o agricultural excellence, and also in close

proximity to the University o Waikato.

Innovation Waikato has deep expertise

in the lie sciences, agritechnology, ICT

and high-tech sectors and a culture o

collaboration and innovation between

research, entrepreneurs and business.

In addition to building capability within

New Zealand, Innovation Waikato is ocused

on developing collaborative research

and commercial ventures overseas.

www.innovationwaikato.co.nz

Dairy Projects International

Capability in consultingDairy Projects International are specialists

in New Zealands pastoral dairy systems

rom pasture management to protable

milk production and harvest.

The company has many years experience

in arm management consultancy,

dairy conversion projects, designing

and constructing milking systems and

ecient, low cost milk production.

The company exports its consultancy

services and its expertise in products

and systems or the dairy industry.

www.dpi.net.nz


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MerialAncare


MerialAncare brings together the

innovation underpinning two leading

animal health companies, Ancare and

Merial, to create a business that is a

major orce or New Zealand agriculture.

Ancare has a proud history o developing

and selling innovative animal health

products to customers in New Zealand

and internationally including a number

o world rst drenches, drug deliverysystems, vaccines and biological controls.

Its research and development

arm operates as Ancare Scientic

and develops products or Merial

New Zealand, which market them

globally using years o experience

in providing products and solutions

that enhance the health, well being

and perormance o animals.

MerialAncare has research connections

with universities in New Zealand and

direct links with the Merial parent

company, which is the worlds largest

investor in animal health research.

www.merial.co.nz

NZ Agritech Incorporated


New Zealand Agritech Incorporated is

ocused on developing the New Zealand

agricultural technology industry and

growing protable agritech businesses

through local and export initiatives.

Its membership includes diverse

businesses producing a wide range

o products and services ranging

rom milking equipment and

animal health remedies to livestockeed and perormance data.

Around the world, NZ Agritech promotes

New Zealand capability in arming

systems and in producing high quality,

high tech products.

It helps members strengthen their

distribution networks oshore and

works with other New Zealand

agencies to promote New Zealand

agritechnology in key markets.

www.agritech.org.nz


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