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Government agrees dairying can't keep growing

28 Apr 2017

Nathan Guy
Nathan Guy


THE GOVERNMENT is publicly acknowledging that the dairy industry is running into environmental limits.

  Nathan Guy
Previously, climate minister Paula Bennett has told Cabinet colleagues in confidential briefings, released to Carbon News under the Official Information Act, that New Zealand cannot keep increasing agricultural exports if it is to reduce greenhouse gases, and now the agriculture minister is also admitting that dairy expansion cannot go on forever.


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