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The Accord was prompted by the high-profile "dirty dairying" campaign by Fish and Game New Zealand which highlighted water pollution of lakes, rivers and streams due to the intensification of dairy farming in parts of New Zealand. [1] In 2014 the Dairying and Clean Streams Accord was succeeded by the Sustainable Dairying: Water Accord. [2]
He published three pamphlets on the manufacture of cheese, butter and bacon in New Zealand. [7] By 1920, there were 600 dairy processing factories of which about 85% were owned by co-operatives. [8] In 1923, the New Zealand Dairy Board (NZDB) was formed as a statutory board with monopoly control of the export of all New Zealand dairy products. [9]
Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited is a New Zealand multinational publicly traded dairy co-operative owned by New Zealand farmers. [8] The company is responsible for approximately 30% of the world's dairy exports [9] and with revenue exceeding NZ $22 billion, [10] making it New Zealand's largest company.
In New Zealand "dirty dairying" refers to damage to the ecological health of New Zealand's freshwater environment by the intensification of dairy farming, [1] and also to the high profile campaign begun in 2002 by the Fish and Game Council to highlight and combat this.
Sharemilking, a form of sharefarming, operates in the dairy industry. The application of this model of agriculture occurs particularly commonly in New Zealand. The most common arrangement is herd-owning sharemilking or 50:50 sharemilking. Sharemilkers own their own herd and equipment, and are responsible for employing workers and the day-to-day ...
The New Zealand Dairy Board (NZDB) was a statutory board in control of the export of all New Zealand dairy products from its formation in 1923 until 2001. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It operated through a global network of marketing subsidiaries.
Food Bill 160-2 was introduced on 26 May 2010 to make some fundamental changes [3] to New Zealand's domestic food regulatory regime. Significantly, for an export-led economic recovery for New Zealand, the domestic food regulatory regime is the platform for exports. [4]
In December 2010, acting on the recommendation of the Overseas Investment Office, the Government decided not to approve Natural Dairy NZ's application to buy 16 farms from receivers. [ 30 ] In January 2011, the Shanghai-based company Pengxin International Group Limited made an offer to purchase the 16 North Island farms and applied to the ...