Current MABx clusters
There are 2 types of MABx clusters:
- Exploration clusters: enable participants to explore opportunities to work together.
- Project clusters: enable participants to implement collective goals.
Choose a region:
Northland
Tupuānuku Horticulture Collective
Investigate the feasibility of a regional approach to Māori horticulture, including shared infrastructure, market access, and capability building.
Bay of Plenty
CNI Sheep Dairy Collective
Create a sheep milk enterprise with Māori agribusinesses and landowners across the entire value chain.
Whangaparāoa Collective
Explore land use options to create commercial and social opportunities.
Matakana Collective
Explore land use options in a collective manner. A particular area of interest is high-value horticulture and developing a Matakana Island brand.
DairyNZ Eastern BOP
Develop more self-reliant governance groups and improve business performance for rural Māori dairy farmers.
Mataatua Macadamia Collective
Explore land use options for macadamia orchards.
Gisborne
Karakatuwhero River catchment
Support landowners on the Karakatuwhero River to initiate and develop a series of discussion groups in Te Araroa.
Ngā Tieki o te kānuka
Explore opportunities and obligations of entering a commercial partnership with an existing business for the production of kānuka bioproducts.
Waikato
Tikanga and Halal Ethics and Authenticity Trade Relationship Project (NZ-wide)
Create trade relationships in local and international Halal markets through the creation of a code of ethics designed in partnership with Maori and Muslim.
Kaahui Tuwa (maara kai)
Develop capability to implement and manage a local food supply system for their whānau, marae, and local community.
Micro abattoirs
Develop an on farm mobile processing plant (mobile/movable or stationary), supplying red meat product domestically with the capability to expand internationally.
Tūrangi/Taupō
Tuwharetoa 14 Farm Collective
Explore land use opportunities and build capability to improve land use.
Hawke's Bay
Wairoa Hort Hub
Establish large-scale horticulture conversion to justify processing facilities for Wairoa.
Wairoa Hort Hub 2
Establish large-scale horticulture conversion to justify processing facilities and associated infrastructure for Wairoa.
Wairoa Sheep and Beef
Improve sheep and beef operations to become more profitable and environmentally sustainable.
Ngāti Pāhauwera and Paroa Whenua
Explore alternative land use options in a collective way through a shared learning networking.
Taranaki and Whanganui
Te Tai Hauaauru Whenua Ora
Explore regenerative agriculture practices and traditional Māori farming practices underpinned by a Matauranga Māori framework.
Aotea Kiwifruit Cluster
Explore the establishment of kiwifruit orchards in Taranaki and Whanganui.
Hiruhārama Horticulture Collective
Explore opportunities to produce high-value crops in Whanganui.
Wairarapa
Gladstone Land Cluster Collective
Explore land options that allow the Māori landowners to work and govern the land by creating opportunities on their whenua.
South Island
Freshwater Kōura Collective
Explore the establishing of freshwater kōura enterprises.
Canterbury
Ahikā Kai Wairewa Collective
Investigate suitable crops for a maara kai to service whānau and the local market.
About MABx
The Māori Agribusiness Extension (MABx) programme supports interested Māori landowners and agribusinesses to work together in clusters towards common goals.
