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Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
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Ministry of Fisheries
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New Zealand Food Safety Authority
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''Vote Agriculture, Biosecurity, Fisheries and Food Safety''
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''Vote Forestry''
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Damien O'Connor
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Stuart Nash
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David Parker
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New Zealand Food Safety
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The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI; mi, Manatū Ahu Matua) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with overseeing, managing and regulating the Agriculture in New Zealand, farming, Fishing in New Zealand, fishing, Food safety in New Zealand, food, Animal welfare in New Zealand, animal welfare, Biosecurity in New Zealand, biosecurity, and Forestry in New Zealand, forestry sectors of New Zealand's primary industries. In December 2017, Agriculture, Food Safety and Biosecurity Minister
Damien O'Connor
Damien Peter O'Connor (born 16 January 1958) is a New Zealand Labour Party politician who currently serves as Minister of Agriculture, Minister for Biosecurity, Minister for Trade and Export Growth, Minister for Land Information and Minister ...
announced that the Ministry of Primary Industries would be reorganised into four entities, Fisheries New Zealand, Forestry New Zealand, Biosecurity New Zealand and New Zealand Food Safety, within the one ministry.
History
Formed in April 2012, MPI is a merger of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (New Zealand), Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), the Ministry of Fisheries (New Zealand), Ministry of Fisheries (MFish), and the New Zealand Food Safety Authority, New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA).
Ministers
The Ministry serves 6 portfolios, 4 ministers, an associate minister and a parliamentary under-secretary.
List of Ministers for Primary Industries
See also
*Biosecurity in New Zealand
**National Animal Identification and Tracing
*Regulation of animal research in New Zealand
References
External links
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New Zealand Public Service departments, Primary Industries
Agricultural organisations based in New Zealand, Primary Industries
2012 establishments in New Zealand
Forestry ministries, New Zealand
Forestry in New Zealand
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