New Opportunities to increase food production in the Kaipara district

 

Kaipara District commissioned Coriolis to identify new food production opportunities in the District. This project was part of the wider Kaipara Kickstart project that included a food strategy and activation plan, establishment of a Kai Hub and local climate and top research.

https://www.kaipara.govt.nz/kai-for-kaipara

Our report highlighted seven high level avenues for growth:

First, there are three avenues for growth for Kaipara kai in existing medium and large sectors:

  1. Adding more value in the region to existing export focused ingredients, specifically dairy and meat

  2. Transitioning kumara from domestic to export competitiveness

  3. Scaling up volumes of existing export fruits (avocados & kiwifruit)

Second, there are four new avenues for growth for Kaipara kai in small, emerging and new sectors:

4. High productivity, vertically integrated animal systems (poultry & pigs)

5. Scale up of existing and new aquaculture opportunities (mussels & oysters)

6. Scale up of existing & emerging secondary & emerging crops (olives)

7. Development of new crops not yet produced in region at any scale

Apr 2020

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