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Speaker 1: The government is progressing a second Resource Management Act Amendment. Build.

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Speaker 1: This is they say, going to drive economic growth and productivity.

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Speaker 1: The big changes here for the farming sector highly productive land.

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Speaker 1: They're going to allow the construction of greenhouses or indoor

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Speaker 1: primary production facilities, and they are also going to allow

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Speaker 1: you to build new infrastructure like soul of Farms on

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Speaker 1: highly productive land in New Zealand. Joining us to discuss

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Speaker 1: this morning, Mark Hooper, National board member and RMA spokesperson

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Speaker 1: at Fed Farmers Mark, good morning, good morning, Good to

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Speaker 1: have you on the show. These are good changes. I'm

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Speaker 1: assuming that you will be welcoming them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I think the bigger picture here is to

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Speaker 2: see that the resource management reform program is kind of

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Speaker 2: on track. So you know, we've had this series of changes.

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Speaker 2: It goes back to the repair of the Natural Built

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Speaker 2: Environment Act, and then we've had the fast tracked legislation.

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Speaker 2: We've had Resource Management Amendment Bill one and was signaled

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Speaker 2: that we'd get bill too, And so the bigger picture

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Speaker 2: is of course a full replacement of the Resource Management Act,

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Speaker 2: which seems to be on the cards and is signaled

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Speaker 2: in this as well. And so as we kind of

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Speaker 2: continue on on that program, we see kind of incremental

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Speaker 2: changes occurring, and mainly they've been focused around fixing up

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Speaker 2: what you would call kind of unworkable rules to some extent,

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Speaker 2: So we saw quite a lot of that that affected

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Speaker 2: the agriculture sector and Resource Management Bill one and this

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Speaker 2: change for Resource Management Bill two. I guess it's perhaps

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Speaker 2: perhaps less significant broadly, but the key thing here is

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Speaker 2: that it's really good to see that the National Policy

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Speaker 2: Statement for highly productive Land is being addressed. There are

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Speaker 2: some concerns, broader concerns around it, and there's some specific concerns,

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Speaker 2: and what they've done is targeted here a couple of

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Speaker 2: the specific concerns, like the soul where.

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Speaker 1: There was what you can do on highly productive land

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Speaker 1: because I imagine that if you want to get stuff

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Speaker 1: done at the moment, there's a whole bunch of hoops

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Speaker 1: you have to jump through.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it was an area where on these specific

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Speaker 2: things there was just a lack of clarity as to

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Speaker 2: what the consenting pathway might be right. And so the

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Speaker 2: concern is for a glasshouse or indoor farming kind of scenario,

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Speaker 2: you're not necessarily using the soil of that highly productive land,

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Speaker 2: and so that National Policy Statement kind of linked up

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Speaker 2: the highly productive land with being highly productive soils. So

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Speaker 2: if you put an intensive food production facility on a

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Speaker 2: piece of highly productive land, but you're not using the soil,

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Speaker 2: you can see that there's a little bit of a

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Speaker 2: little bit of a lack of clarity. They're a little

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Speaker 2: bit of ambiguity as to whether it fits the purposes

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Speaker 2: of the National Policy Statement or.

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Speaker 1: Not, right, So that's why they're having to come up

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Speaker 1: with these kind of interim fixes if you like. This

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Speaker 1: is the government progressing the Second Resource Management Map Amendment Bill,

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Speaker 1: which is going to change a couple of things around

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Speaker 1: highly productive Landmark. Thank you very much for your time

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Speaker 1: this morning, Mark Cooper, who is with Fed Farmers. For

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