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Farm environment Plans (FEP): The Kiwifruit dashboard software has been co-opted and customised to
fast-start a new reporting dashboard that reports Farm Environmental Plans (FEPs), based on a template designed by
The AgriBusiness Group, to meet Environment Canterbury (ECAN) requirements for
farmers.
Further development will be done in the next year. |
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17-18 September 2015
Jon Manhire has been invited to speak at the 7th annual AQNZ conference in Nelson. |
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Jon Manhire participated in meetings with HortNZ to discuss their proposed refinement of their NZGAP programme. HortNZ propose to extend the scope of this programme to address additional regulatory and market demands for environmental and social reporting as well as to enhance the value of collected information to assist grower decision making. HortNZ are keen to link with the NZSD project to inform them in these developments.
July 2015 Jon Manhire has presented the New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard project, at the Global GAP Tour (part of the annual HortNZ conference) – in Rotorua - 29 July 2015. |
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26 May 2015:
Jon Manhire was a speaker at the Primary Industry summit, in Wellington, Te papa, in the debate “Is New Zealand’s primary industry doing enough to protect the environment?” - Facilitated by: Rod Oram, Business Journalist. Other speakers: Ian MacKenzie, Environment Spokesperson, Federated Farmers, Mike Joy, Scientist, Massey University.
Jon Manhire was a speaker at the Primary Industry summit, in Wellington, Te papa, in the debate “Is New Zealand’s primary industry doing enough to protect the environment?” - Facilitated by: Rod Oram, Business Journalist. Other speakers: Ian MacKenzie, Environment Spokesperson, Federated Farmers, Mike Joy, Scientist, Massey University.
