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Sirma Karapeeva: Meat Industry Association Chief Executive on food and fibre exports on track to break records · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Few numbers out this morning show our food and fiber
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  Speaker 1: exports on track to break even the last records we set.
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  Speaker 1: Dairy export revenue up sixteen percent to twenty seven billion,
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  Speaker 1: record meat and wall up eight percent twelve point three billion,
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  Speaker 1: record horticulture up nineteen percent to eight point five billion
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  Speaker 1: on tractor hit sixty billion total for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: This is for the year ending June. Projections forecast from
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  Speaker 1: the Outlook for Primary Industries Report. Suma Katapeva is with
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  Speaker 1: US Meat Industry Association SUMA. Good morning, Good morning, this
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  Speaker 1: is great news.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it certainly is. It's very pleasing to see this
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  Speaker 2: forecast uplift and eight percent is quite impressive to the
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  Speaker 2: year end thirty June. So yeah, it's a good good
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  Speaker 2: outlook for the sector and it's always you know, these
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  Speaker 2: results reinforced that the red meat sector plays a really
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  Speaker 2: crucial role in supporting New Zealand's economy, particularly in our
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  Speaker 2: rural and regional community.
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  Speaker 1: Who's buying our meat, our lock.
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  Speaker 2: This year, we've seen growth and value to most of
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  Speaker 2: our major export markets. There's been robust demand from New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand beef and she'd meet from the United States a
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  Speaker 2: significant increase in sheep meet volumes to the EU and
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  Speaker 2: we're starting to see a good recovery and exports to
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  Speaker 2: China as well.
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  Speaker 1: Long may that continue because that's important obviously now one
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  Speaker 1: of the things the government wants to do. And by
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  Speaker 1: the way, the projection for sixty five billion by twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine means that this is expected to keep increasing.
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  Speaker 1: But this idea that we will double the value of
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  Speaker 1: exports in ten years, do you think it's doable?
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  Speaker 2: Our? Look, I think it's a wonderful aspiration and from
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  Speaker 2: our perspective, it is doable. We're doing all that we
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  Speaker 2: can to lift the value of our products going into
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  Speaker 2: export markets. We've got a robust strategy in place to
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  Speaker 2: do that and we're working very closely to keep on
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  Speaker 2: top of that and keep targeting our exports to those
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  Speaker 2: high performing markets that are paying good export process.
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  Speaker 1: What would product? What would be the thing getting in
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  Speaker 1: the way. Is it just global demand and supply or
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  Speaker 1: is there something in New Zealand. What's one thing the
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  Speaker 1: government could do to make that job easier for you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Look, I think the government is laser focused on
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  Speaker 2: supporting the primary industry to grow and to continue to
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  Speaker 2: be that economic engine for New Zealand. I've just been
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  Speaker 2: at Field Days yesterday and the messages are really reassuring
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  Speaker 2: about being right there next to the primary industries, helping
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  Speaker 2: them to uplift productivity, value production, making sure that there
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  Speaker 2: are no impediments, be they trade impediments or domestic regulatory
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  Speaker 2: impediments that just add a necessary cost and frustration. So
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  Speaker 2: I think the government is certainly focused on doing what
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  Speaker 2: it can to support the.
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  Speaker 1: Growth of this I appreciate your time this morning. That's
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  Speaker 1: sum Katapeva, the Meat Industry Association. For more from Early
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