Programme to prove NZ's food should be 'number one choice'

Programme to prove NZ's food should be 'number one choice'
Staff reporters
The government is backing a new programme to study New Zealand’s pastoral and regenerative farming practices.Minister of agriculture Damien O’Connor today announced the $26.1 million programme, Whenua Haumanu, which will aim to prove to the world why NZ food and fibre should “always be the number one choice”.O’Connor described it as the “most comprehensive” study ever undertaken of pastoral farming in NZ, looking at the system from field to fork including both conventional and regenerative farming pract...