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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]
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] In the 1930s there were around 500 co-operatives [ 10 ] but after World War II , improved transportation, processing technologies and energy systems led to a trend of consolidation where the co ...
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 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.
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.
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.
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 ...
The New Zealand economy relies heavily on agriculture and many animal welfare issues involve the farming sector.. Although New Zealand has high animal welfare standards, a 2016 report from the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee, reviewing the use of farrowing crates on pig farms, found that the pork industry does not accept its requirements under the Pigs Code of Welfare (2010), and ...