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Are ministers ignoring the true issues facing the beekeeping industry?
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<blockquote data-quote="Grant" data-source="post: 2094" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor focuses on optimistic "red herrings" and ignores the true problems facing the apiculture industry, beekeepers say.</p><p></p><p>Although honey export volumes had increased 28 per cent to 10,288 tonnes in the year to June 2020, export revenue had increased by just 20 per cent to $425 million in the same period.</p><p></p><p>A media statement from O'Connor said that "favourable weather conditions in most manuka growing regions" had enhanced hive yields for the 2019/20 season, "with some beekeepers estimating it as the largest manuka honey crop in recent years."</p><p></p><p>But South Wairarapa manuka honey producer Stu Ferguson said that the minister's comments were retrospective and had no relevance to the current situation.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/honey-optimism-a-red-herring-say-wairarapa-beekeepers/HGECAMJLVEWB2SC52IZSCMCOU4/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grant, post: 2094, member: 1"] Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor focuses on optimistic "red herrings" and ignores the true problems facing the apiculture industry, beekeepers say. Although honey export volumes had increased 28 per cent to 10,288 tonnes in the year to June 2020, export revenue had increased by just 20 per cent to $425 million in the same period. A media statement from O'Connor said that "favourable weather conditions in most manuka growing regions" had enhanced hive yields for the 2019/20 season, "with some beekeepers estimating it as the largest manuka honey crop in recent years." But South Wairarapa manuka honey producer Stu Ferguson said that the minister's comments were retrospective and had no relevance to the current situation. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/honey-optimism-a-red-herring-say-wairarapa-beekeepers/HGECAMJLVEWB2SC52IZSCMCOU4/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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