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Speaker 1: So I got some upset over a becklog, Silverthorne Farms, Business,

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Speaker 1: New Zealand Fed Farmers Hought New Zealand PGD Rights and

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Speaker 1: zisbre You all want the government to clear the becklog

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Speaker 1: of over one hundred potentially groundbreaking animal and plant health

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Speaker 1: products they're waiting for approval now. Animal and Plant Health

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Speaker 1: New Zealand Boss Liz Sheckleton's with us, Liz morning, Not

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Speaker 1: am I is this new? Has it always been the case? Look?

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Speaker 2: I think it's about looking forward and where we are

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Speaker 2: at right now. As a contrary, this is a critically

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Speaker 2: important review for the primary sector and for all of

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Speaker 2: New Zealand. One chance to get this right. And this

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Speaker 2: is about action right now, getting innovative tools and solutions

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Speaker 2: out of a queue and into the hands of our

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Speaker 2: farmers and growers. And that's to help them mic to

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Speaker 2: face some really tough challenges at the moment were pests

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Speaker 2: and diseases solutions that are also mission critical to achieve

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Speaker 2: the government's goal of economic growth for primary sector export.

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Speaker 1: Is it simply a queue though because they don't have

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Speaker 1: resource would result solve it? Or is it more complex

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Speaker 1: than them?

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Speaker 2: So look in the letter to ministers which will foindly

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Speaker 2: over a dozen primary sector and business leaders. We all

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Speaker 2: support this isn't a free pass. We all support regulation

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Speaker 2: and it's important that we have a regulator that is

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Speaker 2: appropriately resourced. But what the companies behind these solutions are

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Speaker 2: telling us is that it does more resourcing does not

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Speaker 2: appear to have moved the dial to date, and without

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Speaker 2: change it will be too hard to do business here

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Speaker 2: in New Zealand. I mean might look, it's great to

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Speaker 2: hear the Prime Minister's commitment to go and for growth

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Speaker 2: with a lot less now and a lot more. Yes,

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Speaker 2: this review is a chance to act on that when

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Speaker 2: Cabinet consider the recommendations from the review next month. Because

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Speaker 2: what matters here is unblocking that queue will benefit New

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Speaker 2: Zealanders from Fanga Aida and to in Vercago. And I'm

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Speaker 2: hearing this every day, Mike, and can give you some

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Speaker 2: examples if the audience are interested.

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Speaker 1: They are interested.

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Speaker 2: Right now, Nortland farmers are telling us that one of

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Speaker 2: the world's most devastating pests, fall army worm, is getting

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Speaker 2: worse up there, two to three weeks more advanced than

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Speaker 2: last season. They have limited treatment options and there's a

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Speaker 2: worry those treatments are going to become resistance in the

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Speaker 2: queue at the moment is an alternative called tetronilla pol.

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Speaker 2: It's been there since December twenty twenty two, an unclear

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Speaker 2: when that will be approved. Go across over Christmas to

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Speaker 2: Hawkes Bay areas like Tucky Tucky. Our apple growers need

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Speaker 2: solutions for diseases like black spot to get access into

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Speaker 2: trade markets like China. It is their number one barrier

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Speaker 2: to trade in the QRE. Solutions for that too sitting

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Speaker 2: under assessment for the last three and a half years.

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Speaker 2: In that time, the Australians have approved active HAD label extensions.

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Speaker 2: So Australian growers are out in front of us and

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Speaker 2: look just even of a Christmas Mike. If up in Auckland,

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Speaker 2: if you go out to Mangai and the airport, shout

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Speaker 2: out to a fantastic biosecurity teams there at MPI. They're

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Speaker 2: juggling the fruit fly response at the moment and they're

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Speaker 2: also trying to stay on high alyrics for brown marmorated

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Speaker 2: stinkbog again one of the world's most wanted pests. It

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Speaker 2: would absolutely decimate our veggie industry if you got in

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Speaker 2: again in that queue is Dinota for and a solution

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Speaker 2: that would ease pressure on peoples and systems.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic listen. I got to move on because I've got

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Speaker 1: David Semah and i got the Trade Minister waiting for

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Speaker 1: you in a moment. But you outline the case very

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Speaker 1: very clearly, and given what the Prime Minister has been

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Speaker 1: telling us about growth, so you've given us the problem,

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Speaker 1: You've given us potential solutions. We'll talk to David Seymour

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Speaker 1: about it after seven thirty. That's a lose Sheckleton like

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