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Contribution of the Land-based Primary Industries to New Zealand’s Economic Growth

Published June 2003

Contents

• Overall business environment and policy framework 
• Executive summary 
• Introduction 
• International business environment 
  • Trade Policy issues 
  • WTO facilitation of international trade 
  • The Doha Development Round of trade negotiations 
  • Bilateral trade negotiations 
  • Technical trade barriers 
• Domestic business environment 
  • Perceptions of the agribusiness and forestry sectors, and realities 
  • The innovation system 
  • Private sector R&D and innovation 
  • Investment and related issues 
  • Labour and skills 
  • Resource constraints 
• Existing policy framework for agribusiness and forestry industries
  • Framework for biosecurity
  • Producer board reform 
  • Policy framework for biotechnology 
  • Intellectual property rights 
• Business environment issues and strategic directions relevant to future growth 
  • Broader business environment issues 
  • Reduction in regulatory barriers and compliance costs 
  • Strategic directions relevant to the sectors 
• Concluding comment 
• Dairy 
• Introduction 
• Markets 
• Overview of sector structure, size and dynamics 
  • Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd 
  • Westland Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd 
  • Tatua Co-operative Dairy Company 
  • Other dairy businesses 
  • Cluster businesses 
  • Dynamics 
• Future growth potential 
• Factors determining growth potential 
  • Innovation 
  • Trade liberalisation 
  • Differentiation and niche product development 
• Constraints on and risks to sector 
  • Constraints 
  • Risks 
• Areas for policy to focus on 
• Forestry 
• Introduction 
• Overview of sector structure, size and dynamics 
  • Plantation forestry 
  • Pulp, paper and other large-scale processing sector 
  • Sawmilling and solid wood products 
  • Wider cluster businesses 
• Future growth potential 
  • Increasing production volumes 
  • Solid wood product manufacturing 
  • Sawmilling industry 
  • Knowledge-based services and allied products 
  • Diversification of the forestry resource 
• Factors determining growth potential 
  • Marketing and promotion 
  • Environmental sustainability and forest certification 
  • R&D and innovation 
  • Processing competitiveness 
  • Horizontal coordination and cooperative initiatives 
• Constraints on and risks to sectors 
  • Constraints 
  • Risks 
• Areas for policy to focus on 
  • Implementation of Wood Processing Strategy (WPS) 
  • Market access, standards and verification issues 
  • Linking wood products sector to R&D and business development schemes 
  • Promoting the environmental sustainability of New Zealand’s plantation forestry 
• Meat industry 
• Introduction 
• Overview of sector structure, size and dynamics 
  • Sheep meat 
  • Beef 
  • Deer 
  • Dynamics 
• Future growth potential 
• Factors determining growth potential 
  • Market factors 
  • Innovation and technological change 
• Constraints on and risks to sector 
  • Animal diseases 
  • Lack of market access 
  • Loss of control of meat quota 
• Areas for policy to focus on 
  • Market access and quota protection 
  • Meat New Zealand reform 
• Horticulture 
• Introduction 
• Overview of sector structure, size and dynamics 
• Sector structure and size 
  • Kiwifruit 
  • Pipfruit 
  • Wine grapes 
  • Vegetables 
  • Berryfruit 
  • Summerfruit 
  • Flowers, foliage, plants and bulbs 
  • Avocados 
  • Olives 
  • Other horticultural crops 
  • Wider cluster businesses 
  • Changes in market structure and access 
  • Shifts in horticultural land use 
  • Changes in scale 
  • Flexibility 
  • Innovation, production and productivity dynamics 
• Future growth potential 
• Factors determining growth potential 
  • Research and development and innovation 
  • Market access 
  • Water 
  • Constraints on and risks to sector 
• Constraints on and risks to sector 
• Areas for policy to focus on 
  • Facilitating horticultural exports 
  • Biosecurity strategy 
  • Improved post-entry plant quarantine facilities 
  • HEA 
  • Amendments to Plant Variety Rights Act 
• Wool industry 
• Introduction 
• Overview of sector structure, size and dynamics 
  • Dynamics in the wool industry 
• Future growth potential 
• Factors determining growth potential 
• Constraints on and risks to sector 
• Areas for policy to focus on 
• Arable 
• Overview of sector structure, size and dynamics 
• Future growth potential 
• Factors determining growth potential 
• Constraints on and risks to sector 
• Areas for policy to focus on 
• Pig and poultry industries 
• Introduction 
• Overview of sector structure, size and dynamics 
  • Pig meat 
  • Poultry 
• Future growth potential 
• Factors determining growth potential 
• Constraints on and risks to sector 
• Areas for policy to focus on
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Disclaimer

While every effort has been made to ensure the information in this publication is accurate, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry does not accept any responsibility or liability for error or fact omission, interpretation or opinion which may be present, nor for the consequences of any decisions based on this information.

Any view or opinions expressed do not necessarily represent the official view of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.

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