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
Capability in education and training
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
Capability in education and training
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)
Capability in education and training
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
Capability in education and training
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)
Capability in education and training
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)
Capability in education and training
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)
Capability in education and training
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)
Capability in education and training
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)
Capability in education and training
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
Capability in research and consultancy
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
Capability in research and consultancy
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
Capability in research and consultancy
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
Capability in research and consulting
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
Capability in research and consulting
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
Capability in consulting
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
Capability in consulting
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
Capability in research and consulting
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
Capability in research and consulting
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
Capability in research and consulting
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
Capability in consulting
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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