Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ) is assessing today’s Appeal Court decision regarding the above.

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Climate change, the end of cheap oil, and emerging tensions over water as existing supplies dry up are among the future threats and opportunities facing New Zealand’s primary sectors, says a new publication released today by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF).

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"Funding from the Grass-Roots Up: helping rural communities help themselves” Each year the Sustainable Farming Fund (SFF) provides up to $9.5 million in grants for projects that contribute to the on-going economic, environmental, and social wellbeing of the country’s primary producers.

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In responding to the Hunn report and the findings of the State Services Commissioner’s assessment of the Director General’s actions in dealing with the issues relating to Madeleine Setchell’s possible recruitment to a role in MAF, the Director General Murray Sherwin today said: “At MAF, we take integrity and public sector neutrality very seriously.

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MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAF BNZ) today issued, for public consultation, four draft Import Heath Standards (IHSs) developed for pig meat and pig meat products.

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With the discovery of dead didymo cells in several central North Island rivers yesterday, MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ) and Central North Island regional partner organisations are reminding anglers and other recreational freshwater users to check, clean and dry their equipment between waterways.

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Dead didymo cells have been found in some samples of water taken late last week from the Tongariro, Whakapapa, Mangatepopo and Whanganui Rivers.

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QUEENSTOWN — For the second time since joining the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in 1925, New Zealand will host the OIE Regional Commission for Asia, the Far East and Oceania conference.

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MARLBOROUGH — The invasive alga didymo has been detected in the upper Clarence River, MAF Biosecurity New Zealand announced today.

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MAF Biosecurity New Zealand would like to speak with Australian horse trainer Robert Heathcote, who arrived in the country yesterday afternoon.

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The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s (MAF) 2007 monitoring report into the status of the horticulture and arable sectors shows growers in some sectors expecting low or negative profits from the 2007 harvest season, with the recent high exchange rate reducing export returns.

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With the fishing season due to start next Monday (October 1), MAF Biosecurity New Zealand and Fish & Game are reminding anglers, and other recreational freshwater users of the importance of cleaning their equipment between waterways.

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MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ) is continuing work tracing and seizing a number of genetically modified (GM) aquarium fish that are not permitted in the country.

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The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s biosecurity arm, MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ) says New Zealand already has measures in place to protect against the introduction of bluetongue, but is nevertheless keeping an eye on the situation in the UK where bluetongue has been detected in a cow.

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The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) is seeking comment on a new draft code of welfare for dogs released today.

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Notification of the numbers of animals used in research, testing and teaching was released today, in the National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee (NAEAC) Annual Report.

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MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ) has introduced interim emergency import requirements for horses from countries with endemic equine influenza, to further reduce the risk of the virus entering New Zealand.

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There is currently no evidence of equine influenza in New Zealand.

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