With the need to feed the world’s population of 9.8 billion people by 2050, AgritechNZ is looking at ways New Zealand can scale up its food production to meet the growing global demand.
15 April 2019
This guest post has been written by David Downs, the New Zealand ‘All of Government’ agritech taskforce lead. Its clear why Agritech is part of New Zealand’s future, as well as our past and present. The first ever innovation in New Zealand related to agritech, with Māori settlers creating a mechanism to elongate the growing …
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Today, Jacqui and I are attending the first of three one-day workshops, organised in conjunction with New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (NZTE), to help craft New Zealand’s agritech story. The photograph above was taken at the Waikato Innovation Park in Hamilton. Tomorrow, we head to the Factory in Palmerston North & on Thursday we visit …
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Farm2050, the global collective of leading agritech venture funds and corporate agribusinesses, selected New Zealand as its first country partner...
23 October 2018
A couple of weeks ago, John Harvey, Managing Director of AgriFutures Australia, spent a week in New Zealand.
21 August 2018
In less than a fortnight, more than 30 New Zealand agritech leaders will make history in Silicon Valley
08 August 2018
As the global demand for more food grows, we are well placed to provide the knowledge, the products and the services to help make that happen
05 August 2018
Over the past few weeks, I have been speaking to many players in New Zealand’s emerging agritech sector. As Executive Director of Agritech New Zealand, it’s an important part of my job description. At the same time, I’ve also been speaking to a large number of New Zealand’s primary sector end users – farmers, orchardists …
Continue reading "Can we please build some New Zealand agritech platforms?" 
Last week saw National Fieldays annual 4-day event take place at Mystery Creek in the Waikato. The largest agriculture show in the southern hemisphere, it’s expected that at least 120,000 visitors will have attended the site. We have uploaded images from this year’s Fieldays to our Facebook page. In years gone by, I would now …
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