Plant & Food Research

The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited ( Plant & Food Research ) is one of eight New Zealand Crown Research Institute ( CRI).

The institute in its present form was established only in December 2008 and emerged from the merger of two Crown Research Institutes Crop & Food Research Limited ( Crop & Food Research ) and The Horticulture and Food Research Institute of New Zealand Limited ( HortResearch ).

Objective of the new Institute is to conduct research in the field of cultivation of plants for food production and in the area of food production. The Institute is not only active in New Zealand, but also operates research facilities in Australia and the United States (USA).

As with all government institutions and companies owned by the state, has also Plant & Food Research maorischsprachigen a name. Rangahau Ahumāra Kai translates as follows: Rangahau = research, Ahumāra = horticulture, Kai = food.

Seat

The headquarters of the Institute is in Auckland. Besides the two research institutes in 15 other overseas research centers are operated at different locations nationwide.

History

In the 1980s the New Zealand government began the research and science to restructure. In 1989, for the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology created (Ministry of Research, Science and Technology) with the aim to advise the government to prepare decision-making processes to prioritize resources allocations and introduce the performance review. But that's not enough. They wanted to create separate institutions that should do business independently and autonomously under government supervision and would then do under these conditions with its own rules and guidelines performance-related public and private sector jobs for a variety of tasks.

With the Crown Research Institutes Act 1992 ten Crown Research Institutes were established for this purpose, first, one of which still exist today, eight institutes. Plant & Food Research is one of them.

With the Companies Act 1993, all institutions were converted to limited liability companies ( Limited). Plant & Food Research is, like all other Crown Research Institutes also, the Crown Company Unit ( controlling and advisory department ) Ministry of Finance and the Minister responsible for Research, Science and Technology assumed. Both the responsible Ministers are also interestingly always registered as a shareholder in each of the eight Crown Research Institutes.

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All sources of information and links in English

  • Crown Company Monitoring Advisory Unit
  • Crop & Food Research
  • HortResearch
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