The importance of the agricultural sector to the country is undisputed. Social Credit views family owned farms as the best in terms of production and environmental responsibility. We see a future in diversification and high value niche market organics.

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Social Credit will support the agriculture sector by:

 

• Encouraging low-volume, high value primary agricultural products

 

• Processing of primary products close to their source where practicable, enhancing local communities

 

• Supporting individual, family or co-operative ownership of agricultural land, and discouraging big corporate style farming operations

 

• Helping Kiwi farmers buy their own farms by re-establishing the Rural Bank & making low interest loans available

 

• Preventing the sale of agricultural land into foreign ownership

 

• Implementing plant-breeding programmes to maintain pure strains of seed stock

 

• Promoting research into and use of biological control of agricultural pests, rather than the use of chemicals

 

• Phasing out the use of 1080 aerial drops as quickly as practicable (see our 1080 policy here)

 

• Eradication or control of noxious weeds and animals

 

• Promotion of ‘energy farming’ using renewable resources

 

• Getting rid of the Emissions Trading Scheme

 

• Providing support for fencing waterways, renewing wetland areas, and planting native trees

 

• Resourcing inspection teams to ensure more thorough inspection of all goods entering New Zealand, to minimise the likelihood of damage to agriculture and the environment from imported pests and diseases