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The Federation of Maori Authorities is urging Maori meat producers to have their say on restructuring New Zealand’s red meat industry.
Federated Farmers is putting forward a range of option for addressing cut throat competition in the sector which is squeezing margins for producers, one in five of whom are Maori.
It is pushing a model of co-opetition, where producers co-operate domestically and regionally to make the sector more competitive internationally.
Federated Farmers has already presented the options to the East Coast Red Meat Coalition, which includes more than a dozen of the largest Maori-owned and operated farms in the Tairawhiti region, and it prepared to make similar presentations to other regional groupings of Maori farmers.
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