09 October 2019
It’s great to be back in New Zealand. Having just returned from the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland, where I joined 20+ New Zealand agritech entities on the Callaghan Innovation-led agritech mission, leveraging our expertise globally is especially topical.
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18 September 2019
Beannachdan bho Irelad (Greetings from Ireland). In fact, greetings from the 2019 Irish Ploughing Championships in Carlow.
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19 August 2019
Agritech New Zealand is looking forward to co-hosting the All of Government agritech taskforce roadshow when it visits Hamilton next Monday (26 August), Lincoln on Thursday week (29 August) and Tauranga (Monday 2 September). This is industry’s opportunity to provide feedback to the taskforce on their strategic thinking about how to support and scale New … Continue reading "Is China on your horizon? Join this NZ Agriculture and AgriTech Business Study Tour in November"
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If China is on your horizon, then there is a fantastic opportunity to visit the country in November as part of an organised agritech study tour. The North Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence (CAPE) (which runs out of the University of Auckland) is offering New Zealand companies a unique oppo
August 29, 2019
I’m incredibly excited by this new event being hosted at the 2020 evokeAG conference in Melbourne next February. We had our first evokeAG 2020 steering committee meeting last week and introduced some new elements to the Startup Program. The Investment Pitch is one of these. This is a standa
August 28, 2019
Agritech New Zealand is looking forward to co-hosting the All of Government agritech taskforce roadshow when it visits Hamilton next Monday (26 August), Lincoln on Thursday week (29 August) and Tauranga (Monday 2 September). This is industry’s opportunity to provide feedback to the taskforce o
August 19, 2019
Kia Ora Readers Over the past two weeks, we’ve had a fantastic start to the All of Government Agritech Strategy Roadshow. We’ve had full houses in Palmerston North and Auckland where we have seen large numbers of industry representatives provide insight. The feedback is helping identify
August 14, 2019
In August last year, Agritech New Zealand signed a partnership agreement with Western Growers, the largest producers of fresh produce in North America. At the end of June this year, 20+ kiwi agritech researchers and entrepreneurs spent a week in Salinas talking to Western Growers members and partne
August 6, 2019
The New Zealand Government Agritech Strategy Consultation Workshops are designed to enable industry to provide feedback to the recently released Government strategy document supporting the growth of the New Zealand agritech sector. The first two workshops are being held in Palmerston North &
July 28, 2019
Kia Ora Readers It’s been a very busy few weeks with a number of major agritech initiatives and events taking place. These include: the formal preview of the New Zealand Agritech story, Powered by Place. View it here. the establishment of a new agritech venture fund, bringin
July 25, 2019
The NZ Government Agritech Strategy Consultation Workshops are designed to enable members of Agritech New Zealand & the Precision Agriculture Association of New Zealand (PAANZ) to provide feedback to the recently released Government strategy document supporting the growth of the New Zealand agr
July 17, 2019
Agritech New Zealand is proud to be the first ‘Country Partner’ of the Farm2050 ecosystem, committed to advancing the future of food by supporting agritech entrepreneurs and start-ups. This unique ecosystem will be coming together in an Ideation Day, hosted by Innovation Endeavors and Fini
July 16, 2019