Technology shaping the future of NZ productivity

30 April 2021

Technology is shaping the future of agriculture which will help inject a massive impetus into the New Zealand economy

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AgriTechNZ news: Celebrating agritech

15 April 2021

During the last few months, I’ve been travelling the country hosting the Agritech Industry Transformation Plan (ITP) update roadshow with David Downs from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE). In total, we’ve hosted over 600 attendees and received valuable feedback on what is most important to our agritech community. The touring has also … Continue reading "Connected capital for New Zealand’s emerging agritech sector has finally arrived!"

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AgriTechNZ news: Opportunities to engage and shape our ecosystem

10 March 2021

After another hiatus, I’m grateful that we can return to the events and engagements that help shape our agritech ecosystem. These days, we may be building businesses, developing knowledge, raising money, collaborating or selling online, but there really is something about meeting with key people in our industry, face to face.  This is especially true … Continue reading "Connected capital for New Zealand’s emerging agritech sector has finally arrived!"

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New Zealand and Australian MOU strengthens trans-Tasman Agritech Sector

25 February 2021

AgriTech New Zealand (AgriTechNZ) and The Australian Agritech Association (AusAgritech) are member organisations promoting technology development and adoption that seeks to revolutionise the value of the agricultural and food sectors. Both organisations share the same goals to promote and advocate for the opportunities and challenges across the Agritech sector. Today AusAgritech and AgriTechNZ signed a … Continue reading "Connected capital for New Zealand’s emerging agritech sector has finally arrived!"

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AgritechNZ news: Valuing our connections

11 February 2021

The forced social experiment of the current pandemic leaves me feeling incredibly grateful for our place in the world. Thankfully, we can connect in person as a local community of interests in global agritech, here in Aotearoa.

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NZ Agritech Sector
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Industry News

Connected capital for New Zealand’s emerging agritech sector has finally arrived!

I’ve posted several times before about the importance of connected capital for New Zealand’s emerging agritech sector. Like many areas of the country’s tech sector, access to growth capital can be a major challenge. Last Thursday, at Agritech Unleashed, Arama Kukutai, co-founder & Managing Director of Finistere Ventures, announced that his firm planned to open … Continue reading "Connected capital for New Zealand’s emerging agritech sector has finally arrived!"
17 June 2019
Media Releases

AgritechNZ keen to help scale up NZ food production

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
NZ Agritech Sector

Government & industry are working together to build New Zealand’s agritech sector

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 … Continue reading "Government & industry are working together to build New Zealand’s agritech sector"
03 April 2019
NZ Agritech Sector

Agritech New Zealand & NZTE join forces to help craft the NZ agritech story

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 … Continue reading "Agritech New Zealand & NZTE join forces to help craft the NZ agritech story"
05 March 2019
NZ Agritech Sector

Can we please build some New Zealand agritech platforms?

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?"
24 July 2018