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PGW
18/02/2013 08:30
GENERAL
REL: 0830 HRS PGG Wrightson Limited
GENERAL: PGW: Seed and Nutritional Technology Development
Primary Growth Partnership - Seed and Nutritional Technology Development
PGG Wrightson Seeds and Grasslanz Technology have completed the contracting
process for the Primary Growth Partnership (PGP) programme with the Ministry
for Primary Industries that was announced in October 2012.
PGG Wrightson Seeds is spearheading a Primary Growth Partnership (PGP)
programme together with Grasslanz Technology Limited to deliver innovative
forages for New Zealand farms.
The full programme is valued at $14.6 million, with PGP funding contributing
$7.15 million over six years.
The Seed and Nutritional Technology Development programme aims to develop new
technologies that improve animal productivity and animal health, while
overcoming adverse environmental impacts.
John McKenzie, PGG Wrightson Group-General Manager AgriTech, welcomed the
implementation of the programme noting that "future high-performing farming
systems require forages that can meet the nutritional requirements of
high-performing animals. They also require technologies that can mitigate
environmental impacts associated with increasing on-farm productivity. With
the programme agreed we can now move to starting the specific projects which
will deliver these gains."
The PGP programme consists of five projects focussed on the development and
adoption of technologies that provide benefits to New Zealand's pastoral
sector through:
o more reliable and faster pasture establishment;
o increased pasture productivity and persistence through reducing the impact
of pests and diseases;
o improved animal health and animal productivity;
o lower greenhouse gas emissions; and
o reduced susceptibility to summer drought stress.
In time, farmers can expect technologies that provide improved productivity
and profitability across all regions and farming systems where pasture
renewal occurs.
Information sharing and closer linkages with other PGP initiatives,
particularly around adoption of these new technologies by farmers, should
provide additional benefits.
For more information, please contact:
Dr Derek Woodfield, General Manager Research & Development, PGG Wrightson
Seeds
[email protected] ; telephone 0272126051
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