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ApiNZ Secures Funding For Honey Sector Strategy
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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 10813" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>Basically MPI turned up at beekeeping meetings and spouted on about how wonderful the potential for increasing manuka production was.</p><p>It made about as much sense as saying we could triple New Zealand livestock numbers and therefore make three times as much money from livestock. All without having any more land available.</p><p>They also failed to take into account that pollination of horticultural crops and more importantly clover are far more important to New Zealand's economy than a few kilograms extra of honey. By the time MPI was encouraging beekeepers to increase hive numbers existing beekeepers and some new beekeepers had already worked out that there was some money to be made and had already had hives in most suitable areas.</p><p>I think they should be more concerned with sustainability full stop .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 10813, member: 207"] Basically MPI turned up at beekeeping meetings and spouted on about how wonderful the potential for increasing manuka production was. It made about as much sense as saying we could triple New Zealand livestock numbers and therefore make three times as much money from livestock. All without having any more land available. They also failed to take into account that pollination of horticultural crops and more importantly clover are far more important to New Zealand's economy than a few kilograms extra of honey. By the time MPI was encouraging beekeepers to increase hive numbers existing beekeepers and some new beekeepers had already worked out that there was some money to be made and had already had hives in most suitable areas. I think they should be more concerned with sustainability full stop . [/QUOTE]
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