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The Government is backing a $280,000 marketing push to support West Coast businesses after storms lashed the region, says Rural Communities Minister and local MP Damien O’Connor.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Rural Communities

Sustained high growth in primary industry exports looks set to continue over the next two years with strong prices predicted for farmers, fishers, growers and rural communities.

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture
  • Fisheries
  • Trade and Export Growth

The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) has approved a $15 million loan to help re-establish a gold mining operation at Blackwater Gold Mine, near Reefton on the West Coast today.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Fletcher Tabuteau
  • Regional Economic Development

Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor has welcomed the release of a bold new vision for the country’s vital food and fibre sector.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture

A medium-scale adverse event has been declared for the South Canterbury district, which will see up to $50,000 in funding made available to support farming communities which have been significantly affected by recent heavy rain and flooding in the area, says Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture

Healthier waterways, better productivity and farmer wellbeing are front and centre in a new project involving more than 1000 Southland farmers and growers.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture

A Taskforce has made 11 recommendations to improve animal welfare in intensive winter grazing farm systems, the Minister of Agriculture Damien O’Connor confirmed today.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture

Another 51 quarantine officers and four new biosecurity detector dog teams will help protect New Zealand from invasive pests and diseases this summer, says Biosecurity Minister Damien O’Connor.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Biosecurity

Minister of State for Trade and Export Growth and Minister of Agriculture, Damien O’Connor, heads to Thailand today to attend a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Ministerial meeting on 1 November which will be followed by a Leaders’ Summit on 4 November attended by Prime Minister Ardern.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture
  • Trade and Export Growth

A group of 50 New Zealand companies have signed a first-of-its-kind pledge to protect New Zealand from pests and diseases.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Biosecurity

The Government and primary sector are joining forces and taking action to fix the skills gap facing farmers and growers, Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor said today.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture

The Government today announced its support for a project that could substantially reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions from cattle.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture

Biosecurity Minister Damien O’Connor is warning travelling Kiwis to be vigilant as the high-season for the crop-eating brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) is under way.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Biosecurity

Extra funding will allow Rural Support Trusts to help farming families, says Minister for Rural Communities and Agriculture Damien O’Connor.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture
  • Rural Communities

Minister of State for Trade and Export Growth and Minister of Agriculture, Damien O’Connor, heads to Thailand today to attend the final Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Ministerial meeting, as negotiations enter their final stages.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Trade and Export Growth

Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor, Climate Change Minister James Shaw and visiting Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte co-hosted a business roundtable in Auckland this morning focused on work

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Hon James Shaw
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change

Farmer and former Nuffield scholar Mel Poulton has been appointed New Zealand’s Special Agricultural Trade Envoy, Minister for Trade and Export Growth, David Parker, and Minister of Agriculture, Damien O’Connor, announced today.

  • Hon David Parker
  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Trade and Export Growth

Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor says new farmer-to-farmer extension groups launched in Whangaparaoa today will help Māori agribusinesses achieve their goals.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture

Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor says a slew of new research projects will boost New Zealand’s world-leading efforts to help farmers understand and mitigate the effects of climate change.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Hon James Shaw
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change

The Minister of Agriculture, Damien O’Connor, welcomes the release today of research by UMR showing Kiwis have a positive view of our farmers and growers.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture

New Zealand’s primary sector exports continue to surpass expectations with revenue up 8.7 per cent on the previous year, reaching a record $46.4 billion in the year ended June 2019.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture
  • Trade and Export Growth

Minister of State for Trade and Export Growth and Minister of Agriculture, Damien O’Connor, heads to Thailand today to attend a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Ministerial meeting, as negotiations into the final stages.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture
  • Trade and Export Growth

The Government is taking action to stop the degradation of our waterways and clean up our rivers and lakes within a generation.

  • Hon David Parker
  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture
  • Environment

A pest seaweed is to be turned into a premium edible export in a Government funded venture announced by Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor and Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash today.

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture
  • Fisheries