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Financial Overview

The Director-General of Agriculture and Forestry is responsible for administering three Votes - Vote Agriculture and Forestry, Vote Biosecurity and Vote Food Safety. The total sum appropriated through these Votes for 2007/08 is $401.199 million representing $141.398 million for Vote Agriculture and Forestry, $168.709 million for Vote Biosecurity and $91.092 million for Vote Food Safety.

Summary of 2007/08 Expenditure Appropriations

  VOTES  
  AGRICULTURE
AND FORESTRY
$(000)
BIOSECURITY
$(000)
FOOD SAFETY
$(000)
TOTAL
$(000)
Departmental output expenses 43,487 139,051 89,302 271,840
Departmental other expenses 60 - - 60
Non-departmental output expenses 77,548 29,528 - 107,076
Non-departmental other expenses 20,283 130 1,790 22,203
Non-departmental capital expenditure 20 - - 20
Total 141,398 168,709 91,092 401,199

Departmental Output Expenses

  REVENUE
CROWN
$(000)
REVENUE
OTHER
$(000)
TOTAL
$(000)
Vote Agriculture and Forestry      
Administration of indigenous forestry provisions 2,617 62 2,679
Agriculture and forestry policy advice 29,543 578 30,121
Animal welfare 2,547 25 2,572
Climate change 2,372 145 2,517
Contract, grant and asset management 3,351 47 3,398
Contestable services - 2,200 2,200
Total Vote Agriculture and Forestry 40,430 3,057 43,487
Vote Biosecurity      
Biosecurity approvals and assurance 1,080 1,078 2,158
Biosecurity enforcement 4,453 55 4,508
Biosecurity policy 11,493 220 11,713
Biosecurity standards 24,100 2,765 26,865
Biosecurity surveillance and incursion response 31,776 2,430 34,206
Quarantine services 32,701 26,900 59,601
Total Vote Biosecurity 105,603 33,448 139,051
Vote Food Safety      
Consultation and food safety information 2,749 683 3,432
Food safety policy advice 3,105 21 3,126
Regulatory programmes 2,165 35,594 37,759
Regulatory standards 18,217 22,093 40,310
Response to food safety emergencies 383 - 383
Systems audit and enforcement 2,792 1,500 4,292
Total Vote Food Safety 29,411 59,891 89,302
Total All Votes 175,444 96,396 271,840

Services to be supplied under each departmental output expense are detailed in the Statement of Service Performance.

Departmental Other Expenses

 $(000)
Vote Agriculture and Forestry  
Restructuring Expenses 60

Non-Departmental Output Expenses

  $(000)
Vote Agriculture and Forestry  
Management of Crown forestry assets 77,548
Vote Biosecurity  
Control of TB vectors 29,528
Total Votes Agriculture and Forestry and Biosecurity 107,076

Non-Departmental Other Expenses

  $(000)
Vote Agriculture and Forestry  
Adverse climatic events 636
Community irrigation schemes 17
East Coast afforestation grants 8,278
Organic initiatives 750
Subscriptions to international organisations 2,158
Sustainable farming fund 8,444
Total Vote Agriculture and Forestry 20,283
Vote Biosecurity  
Subscriptions to international organisations 130
   
Vote Food Safety  
New Zealand and Australia food standards setting treaty 1,790
Total All Votes 22,203

Non-Departmental Capital Expenditure

   $(000)
Vote Agriculture and Forestry  
Forestry encouragement loan advances 20

Details of Non-Departmental appropriations appear in Parts B1 and C2 of Vote Agriculture and Forestry, Vote Biosecurity and Vote Food Safety 2007/08 Estimates (B.5 Vol. 1). 

Crown Revenue and Capital Receipts

The Ministry is responsible for collecting the following revenue on behalf of the Crown.  
  $(000)
Vote Agriculture and Forestry  
Crown forestry assets 109,172
Dairy industry levy 500
Forestry encouragement loan repayments 2,125
Total Vote Agriculture and Forestry 111,797
Vote Biosecurity  
Biosecurity Act 1993 fines 1,300
Total Votes Agriculture and Forestry and Biosecurity 113,097

Details of Crown revenue appear in Parts F of Vote Agriculture and Forestry and Vote Biosecurity 2007/08 Estimates (B.5 Vol. 1).

Contact for Enquiries

Strategy and Performance Group
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Pastoral House
25 The Terrace
PO Box 2526, Wellington

Tel: +64 4 894 0100
Fax: +64 4 894 0738 Contact this person

 




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