date:May 24, 2017
he horticulture growing operations in vegetables is concentrated around towns and cities. Soils have to be high quality and very good for growing vegetables. It came to a head in Pukekohe, but if you look right around the country to where we are growing we are getting pressures from towns and cities onto our land.
Mr Chapman points out that according to Fresh Facts data in 2015 only 86,000 hectares of fruit and vegetables are planted in New Zealand (36,000ha in fruit, not including wine, and 50