Potatoes New Zealand activities

The portion of levy identified for Potatoes New Zealand is used to fund Potatoes New Zealand Committee meetings, annual conference costs including those of the growers attending Conference, a share of the Commercial Grower magazine postage and its annual operating costs, newsletters to growers, communications with media, government agencies, growers, others within the industry, this website and a share of the relevant staff salaries and office overheads within Horticulture New Zealand.

Potato Industry 2012

Industry Vision: In 2012 the industry will operate to world's best practice and have standards that are equal to or better than benchmark standards.  For more information click here.

Potatoes New Zealand Purpose

Potatoes New Zealand's purpose is to provide leadership in three key areas.

1 Collaboration

• Enhancement of collaboration between growers via benchmarking, education and international collaborations.
• Understanding of international supply chains.

2 Profile

• Development of more robust industry statistics.
• Enabling knowledge transfer.
• Development of an industry communications plan.

3 Sustainability

• Building a closer relationship with the HortNZ RMA portfolio.
• Giving feedback to R&D Group on priorities.
• Regularly reporting to R&I Board on environmental issues of relevance.
• Enabling knowledge transfer.

Values

The values of Potatoes New Zealand are to behave in a way that is INCLUSIVE, provides INSPIRATION, and demonstrates INTEGRITY.

Form

The form of Potatoes New Zealand, including Committees and their associated purpose and activity areas, are demonstrated below:

To download a larger version of this governance chart please click here.

Meeting papers 

Minutes, annual reports, and other official Potatoes New Zealand meeting papers can be downloaded by clicking on the links below.  Papers are listed in chronological order, with more recent items at the top of the list.

• 2009 annual report
• 2008 annual report
• 2008 chairman's address
• November 2008 minutes
  

Potato Product Group Representatives

Terry Olsen (Chair) Palmerston North Ph / Fax 06 362 7499 Mobile 027 443 7967	Ron Gall (Business Manager) Horticulture New Zealand Ph 04 472 3795 Fax 04 471 2861 Mobile 027 446 6838
Kate Shannon (Product Group Administrator) Horticulture New Zealand Ph 04 470 5668 Fax 04 471 2861 Mobile 027 668 0144	Bharat Bhana Pukekohe Ph 09 238 0015 Fax 09 238 7248 Mobile 027 482 8305
Andrew Innes Rakaia Ph 03 302 2888 Fax 03 302 2868 Mobile 027 432 7073	Ian Corbett Fielding Ph 06 328 9712 Fax 06 328 9717 Mobile 027 444 4858
Robin Oakley Leeston Ph 03 324 2902 ext 4 (w) Fax 03 324 2611 Mobile 027 226 2777	Nick Tayler Temuka Ph 03 615 8676 (w) Ph 03 615 7390 (h) Fax 03 615 8676 Mobile 027 434 1402
Kevin Wilcox Pukekohe Ph 09 238 6010 (w) Ph 09 238 7375 (h) Fax 09 238 3117 Mobile 021 931 429	Murray Turley Temuka Ph 03 615 9053 Fax 03 615 9226 Mobile 027 434 2553