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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 ...
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.
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.
In 2009 they owned 22 farms, 18 of which are dairy, and 20,000 cows, [3] making them New Zealand's largest family owned dairy business. [ 5 ] During the 2000s CraFarms was prosecuted multiple times in the Environment Court for unlawfully discharging stock effluent. [ 6 ]
The Dairy Industry Restructuring Act is an Act of Parliament passed in New Zealand in 2001.. The Act authorised the amalgamation of New Zealand's two largest dairy co-operatives - New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd and Kiwi Co-operative Dairies Ltd - into Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited and the resulting ownership by Fonterra of all the shares in the New Zealand Dairy Board.
National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) is a system of agricultural animal tracing in New Zealand for biosecurity and human health. The schemes use radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology and a national database to trace animals from birth to either slaughter or live export.