date:May 24, 2017
irrigation infrastructure, while $26.7million provides matched grant funding to regional scale irrigation schemes.
With the sector employing 60,000 people nationwide, Horticulture New Zealand has also labelled improving workforce skills as another important focus for the budget.
We have a lot of New Zealanders who are not working, so if we could have support for some of the programs that we are running to upskill these people and get them work ready this will be great for the country, Mr Chap