Agriculture

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Sustainable agriculture and farming are important to New Zealand. Find out about chemicals, fertilisers, and product requirements used in agriculture.

In this section

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Agricultural compounds and veterinary medicines (ACVM)

Class determinations, authorisation, making, selling, and using ACVMs. Plus, maximum residue levels and others

Plant products

Selling plant products in NZ, hemp seeds as food, supplying the wine industry, MRLs, registers, and forms

Dairy farming

Getting started in dairy, processing and manufacture requirements, Farm Systems Change, exporting

Poultry and eggs

Primary and secondary poultry processing, poultry farming, Whole Flock Health Scheme, egg production, risk management programmes

Winemaking

Wine standards management plans (WSMPs), supplying grapes, labelling requirements, laboratory testing, verifying winemakers

Beekeeping

Setting up as a beekeeper, tutin contamination, bee biosecurity, honey processing, beekeeping organisations, exporting honey

Organic product requirements in NZ

What "organic" means, and requirements for selling, exporting, and importing

Farm management, the environment, and land use

Healthy waterways, biosecurity on your farm, stock water reticulation, Overseer, sustainable high-value land use