ELECTION 2020: Ardern rolls out $44b primary sector export plan

ELECTION 2020: Ardern rolls out $44b primary sector export plan
Brent Melville
The government will inject a further $84 million of funding into its sustainable food and fibre futures fund and repurpose $11.6 million from the one billion trees fund into a forestry and wood processing initiative as part of its ‘roadmap’ for the primary sector. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the funding will push existing and planned agriculture, fisheries and forestry schemes to more than $3 billion, and aims to lift NZ’s export receipts by an annual $4.4 billion over the next decade, helping employ an extra 10,000 Kiwis within four...

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