The nation’s favourite fast-food under threat! Our favourite vlogger, foodie and nutritionist has grabbed a few moments with PNZ CEO Chris Claridge to hammer home the message of buying NZ fries and remembering the importance of the fries sector to our overall grower confidence. 55% of NZ potatoes’ billion dollar industry, comes from processed potatoes….
Food truck tales: Double Dutch Fries, lockdown and beyond Timothy van der Werff loves chips. So much so that he’s made his single-minded dedication to the perfect fried potato into his business. Van der Werff’s Double Dutch Fries food truck operation is the result of five years’ hard work, starting with experimenting at home in…
Calls for action to stop low-priced frozen fry imports – an extract from WPM Issue 469. The New Zealand potato industry has joined its Australian counterpart in requesting that its government impose short-term measures to prevent the import of discounted frozen potato products into the country. Like other countries, New Zealand’s fry and other product…
Guy Slater is on a newly formed sub-committee with NZ potato processors, to plan pandemic recovery for the sector of the potato industry which generates 55% of it’s $1 billion value. The sub-committee is currently addressing the potential import threat of 2.6 million tonne surplus of frozen fries from the European Union. At 46 Guy…
Read the electronic issue of the NZG here. There will be no print version of the magazine due to the pandemic response. [mdocs single-file=”19303″ ]
by Gemma Carroll, Communications & Engagement Officer, Potatoes New Zealand. Featured image, Brad Whitfield, vege grower. Organic farmers are a small but growing sector in Aotearoa and considering consumer trends and the recent law changes, it’s time to hero the industry. Demand for organics is increasing. The U.S. organics market is currently worth more than…
By Gemma Carroll, PNZ Communications & Engagement Officer. Featured image Chris Pescini’s potato field, Levin. In February 2020, the Potatoes NZ board adopted a new strategic objective of zero net emissions by 2050. This is now one of 3 central objectives including doubling export value by 2025 and increasing domestic value by 50% by 2025….
How to stop wasting spuds – with Niki Bezzant Did you know that Kiwis collectively throw away about 96 million potatoes every year? Potatoes come in at number six on the list of food waste that could be avoided. But it’s easy to stop this. I talked to Love Food Hate Waste co-ordinator Catherine Lord…
Plastic-free produce: the next frontier? Naked produce. No, it’s not a dodgy search term (though I wouldn’t even try Googling it, just in case); it’s the next new thing in supermarket shopping. I met a nervous but excited Kiri Hannifin, Countdown’s GM for Sustainability, in the produce section at Countdown Ponsonby, one of the stores…
For the first time in the history of the Global Risks Perception Survey, environmental concerns dominate the top long-term risks by likelihood among members of the World Economic Forum’s multi-stakeholder community; three of the top five risks by impact are also environmental. “Failure of climate change mitigation and adaption” is the number one risk by…
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