FUTURE MEAT RESEARCH IN
MAORI AGRIBUSINESS
18 March 2015
Chris Koroheke, Tanira Kingi, Hoani Ponga
CONTENTS
1. Primary Sector Asset Base
2. Sector Developments
3. AgResearch’s Positioning
4. Future Research Opportunities
PRIMARY SECTOR ASSET BASE
SECTOR DEVELOPMENTS
Emergence of Maori farm clusters and collectives
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Aggregation of small title holdings into larger farming units
Multiple farm units to collective farms
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Based on whakapapa/whanaungatanga/kaitiakitanga
Advantages
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Scale efficiencies – Bargaining power
Access to research investment and development capital
Ability to diversification of activities
Value chain activities
COLLECTIVES
Te Arawa Primary Sector
Group
• 30 members
• 35,000ha
• 80,000 stock units
Awhina Group
• 13 members
• 30,000ha
• 132,000 Sheep
• 16,000
Taumata (Tairawhiti)
Collective
• 10 members
• 15,600ha
• 78,000 Sheep
• 9810 Cattle
EMERGING CLUSTERS
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Tuwharetoa Collective
Nga Aho Rangahau o Maniapoto (NAROM)
Piopio Farm Collective
Advise on establishing collectives
AgR a research provider
Watching brief
Drivers
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Desire for progress growth and development
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Demographics and statistic compelling
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Increased productivity and profitability
POST SETTLEMENT ENTITIES
Settlement Assets
• Purchase of Landcorp
properties including beef and
sheep farms
• Financial Redress
CENTRAL GOVERNMENT POLICY
DRIVERS
Tightening of criteria around
National economic drivers - lifting
productivity and improving
utilisation
Vision Matauranga funding for
CRIs
Business Growth Agenda (BGA)
Maori economic strategy and
action plan - He Kai Kei Aku Ringa
• Boosting Maori economic
performance
Crown Maori Economic Growth
Partnership
MPI Maori Agribusiness:
Pathway to increased
productivity
AGRESEARCH POSITION
1. Encourage the formation and growth of collectives –
providing advice and guidance
2. Works alongside innovation brokers Poutama, funders
MBIE, MPI, Callaghan Innovation
3. Science research as an enabler to support decision
making processes for economic growth and
sustainability
4. Facilitate linkages between Maori enterprises and R&D
pathways to market for new products and services
Tuhono
Whenua SFF
Benchmarking
FRNL
NZAGRC
MBIE Dairy
Sheep/Land
Corp Iwi
Consortium
Firstlight
Consortium
Tairawhiti
Land
Development
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Tuwharetoa
Collective
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Te Arawa
Primary
Producers
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PKW
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Atihau
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Whanganui Inc
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Rua o Te Moko
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CHARACTERISTICS
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Governance driving growth
Maori agribusiness continuum
• Underperforming entities – well performing businesses
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Aspirations
Improved performance on farm
Value added processes
Value chain activities
Export markets channels
Long term – multi generational businesses
Underlying value driver – Kaitiakitanga
Future subject of heavily regulated environmental
impacts
Need to attract and invest R&D capital
NEEDS OF MAORI AGRIBUSINESS
(1) land use diversification and farm systems
efficiency;
(2) reducing environmental impacts; and
(3) new products and innovative value chains.
FUTURE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
On Farms Productivity and Profitability
Kaitiakitanga – shape of future Maori farms
• New technologies to reduce GHG emissions targets
• Optimising profit from low input i.e. low footprint,
farm systems (dairy and dry stock)
• Farming resilience - increasing regulation, climate
change and production from marginal land
• Collective/multi-farm science strategies for growth
• Forage – pasture quality
• Soil fertility
• Animal health – remedies based on native flora IP
FUTURE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
Value chains
• Opportunities made possible by vertical
integration
• Tools to map red meat value chains across
suppliers
• Food provenance branding to tell their story
• Technologies to process package and store new
meat commodities for specific export markets
Halal market
• New Products
Indigenous flavoured meat condiments