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Monthly Update April 2018
Industry must look to new pest control options New Zealand’s hothouse tomato industry must look for more biocontrol methods to manage pests, says Tomatoes NZ chair Alasdair... Read more
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Biosecurity Response
An exotic pest arrives – What happens next? The arrival of an exotic pest or disease can rapidly impact on a grower’s livelihood together with that of... Read more
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Monthly Update May 2018
Research update in Pukekohe Tomato growers and consultants in upper North Island were invited to a tomato industry research update last month, held in Pukekohe on the... Read more
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Commodity Levy
The activities of TomatoesNZ are funded by a commodity levy, which is paid by all fresh tomato growers. The Commodity Levies (Fresh Tomatoes) Order 2019 came into... Read more
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March Monthly Update
*Biosecurity Workshop* The TNZ board, along with key industry partners, participated in a biosecurity response simulation exercise run by Biosecurity NZ (MPI) in Auckland on 14th February. Sixteen... Read more
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Biocontrol Research
Two well attended workshops were held during March in Clevedon and Lincoln to update growers on the work being done on biocontrol research, with a particular... Read more
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April Monthly Update
*International reports of a new Tobamovirus spreading rapidly* Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus (ToBRFV) is not known to have arrived in New Zealand or Australia so far. However... Read more
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Covered crops are thriving under the economic radar
While larger industries grab most of the headlines (with good reason) they do not portray the full New Zealand story of a developed economy in action.... Read more
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Fruit fly baiting to resume in Northcote
Update from Biosecurity New Zealand on Fruit fly in Auckland - 12 August 2019: As we are nearing the end of winter, Biosecurity New Zealand’s fruit fly... Read more