K38 Reports

The New Zealand plantation forest industry currently relies on manual labour to carry out silviculture operations, particularly planting, waste thinning and pruning. However, the industry is currently experiencing significant labour shortages. This is likely to be exacerbated for silviculture operations, particularly for planting in the short-term, with the commencement of the New Zealand Government’s ‘1 … Read more

The aim of this report is to identify opportunities for the NZ pork producers to compete with continued and increase imported pork. The three main areas I have investigated are “WHY?” we need to compete. I investigate the reasons for the increase concentrating on pork production in relation to population data. I studied the imported … Read more