Investing to save NZ's farming and food production system

Investing to save NZ's farming and food production system
Horticultural tech company Hectre is bringing fruit grading into the modern age. (Image: Hectre/NZME)
Greg Hurrell
Pacific Channel sees a viable future for New Zealand’s existing agriculture system as it invests around a third of its funds into the future of food production.Although focused on the long-term, the company prefers to stay out of transformative technologies such as lab-produced food. That comes from a need to generate returns for its investors in a reasonable timeframe.The Auckland-based venture capital firm wants to drive better on-farm productivity and profitability. It aims to improve the nutritional, environmental and economic outcome...

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