date:Aug 15, 2018
Food producers in the Hawkes Bay region of New Zealand have won a major battle to keep the Hastings District officially GM Free.
Federated Farmers has formally abandoned its legal attempt to overturn Hastings official GM Free food producing status.
Pure Hawkes Bay, a lobby group representing Hawkes Bay growers, exporters and farmers backed the GM Free plan rules adopted by the Hastings District Council in 2015. Pure Hawkes Bay chairman, and sheep and beef farmer Bruno Chambers says its a very