Pipfruit Submissions Report Released
MAF has released a report that analysed submissions made in response to a discussion paper issued last year on the future direction of apple exports. The paper proposed four options: maintaining the status quo, returning to a single desk seller, total deregulation, or a Horticulture Export Authority model (a more detailed summary of the paper can be found in the December 2000 `Rural Bulletin').
Of the 121 submissions received, 85 supported contestable exporting, either through deregulation or the HEA model.
The HEA model would see growers and exporters together forming a recognised product group, and requiring government satisfaction that it was representative of both. Either option would get rid of current regulations, introduced in 1999, which set up ENZA as a statutory dominant exporter.
| Copies of the report can be obtained from Peter Winsley, MAF Head Office, PO Box 2526, Wellington, tel (04) 470 2733, and copies of the paper will be appearing on the MAF website at www.maf.govt.nz |
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