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Jamie Mackay: The Country host on what the India FTA means for Kiwi farmers · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: We have twenty past six and with us now as
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  Speaker 2: Jamie mckaye, host of the Country Good I Heather, how
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  Speaker 2: are you? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Hang on, Jamie, I've got your music to play for
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  Speaker 1: now the Rural Report with Farmland's don't let unsafe gears
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  Speaker 1: slow you down? Here you go that that'll feel better now,
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  Speaker 1: won't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Well, I've got to look after Farmland's form sponsors.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, talk to me about the India FDA. You feeling excited, Well.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very excited. Well, I'm a lot more excited than Winston.
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  Speaker 2: Let's put it that way. Look, I think the numbers
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  Speaker 2: speak for themselves. Heither and I know you've had someone
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  Speaker 2: from Business desk on already talking about this today. Ninety
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  Speaker 2: five These are the key numbers for me. Ninety five
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  Speaker 2: percent of New Zealand exports to India will either eliminate
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  Speaker 2: or reduce tariffs. Eighty two percent of all exports will
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  Speaker 2: become terror free, fifty seven percent basically on day one. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the question is, ever, when is day one of this
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  Speaker 2: agreement going to come into place, obviously, I've got to
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  Speaker 2: run it through Parliament and run through the various processes there.
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  Speaker 2: I stid speak to Todd McLay and Singapore on his
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  Speaker 2: way home from India. That man doesn't charge much for accommodation.
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  Speaker 2: He just sleeps on planes, by the way, And he
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  Speaker 2: said it's true. He flew all the way to India
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  Speaker 2: last year, didn't even stay, slept on the way over,
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  Speaker 2: slept on plane on the way home. We need more
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  Speaker 2: politicians like him. But he's hoping to get this done
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  Speaker 2: before the election. And if I was Todd McLay and
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Luxen and Nichola Willis, I'd want this done before
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  Speaker 2: the election just in case, just saying, Heather, in case
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  Speaker 2: Chippy changes his mind.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, this is a fair point from you.
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  Speaker 2: Now tell me what is your alternative because you're a
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  Speaker 2: bit worried about the trucking and the fact that it
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  Speaker 2: might cause the potholes. So what's your alternative here? Well, no,
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  Speaker 2: it's just interesting. I totally get what's And I heard
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  Speaker 2: the bloke from Mainfraid I think it was on with
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  Speaker 2: the host this morning. And you know, we've obviously got
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  Speaker 2: the capacity with the trucks to take more weight, make
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  Speaker 2: it more fuel efficient on a weight basis. The only
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  Speaker 2: thing I would say after driving around central Otago for
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  Speaker 2: the long Anzac weekend is that, you know, I just
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  Speaker 2: hope our roads can take these bigger vehicles. That's the
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  Speaker 2: only reason we haven't got them on now, because they
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  Speaker 2: just cause more damage to our roads. Our roads are
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  Speaker 2: a bit of a dog's breakfast as it stands at
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  Speaker 2: the moment, if you ask me, and I'm just putting
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  Speaker 2: it out there, I'm just flying a kite. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying I necessarily agree with it, but could we be
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  Speaker 2: to use old word vernacular like a penny wise and
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  Speaker 2: a pound foolish. Yes, we're going to save some diesel,
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  Speaker 2: but at what cost to our natural our national roading structure,
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  Speaker 2: because we all know we haven't got enough money even
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  Speaker 2: to maintain our roads, let alone build some of these
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  Speaker 2: new roads of national significance. And I look at some
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  Speaker 2: of the really good roads in this country, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: thinking of the Highway from Auckland down to Hamilton Cambridge,
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  Speaker 2: and I think of that Eastern toll Road out of
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  Speaker 2: Taaronga to Poki out that way. They're great roads. We
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  Speaker 2: need more of those. Despite what Julie and Jentis says,
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  Speaker 2: my only thought would be maybe we could look and
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  Speaker 2: this is once again from driving around Central Otago over
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  Speaker 2: the long Anzac weekend, Heather, we could look at banning
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  Speaker 2: camp evans simply because they clogged the roads, They slow traffic,
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  Speaker 2: and they ultimately slow productivity. Just an idea. The campavan
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  Speaker 2: owners are going to hate on me, but just before
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  Speaker 2: you do hate on me, look in your rear vision
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  Speaker 2: mirror when there are seven cars behind you too.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Thank you, Jamie Jami mckaie hosts of the Country.
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