{"id":176438,"date":"2025-12-10T02:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/176438\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T02:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:14:07","slug":"hortnz-believes-rma-reforms-are-a-positive-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/176438\/","title":{"rendered":"HortNZ believes RMA reforms are a positive step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cGrowers will be looking for clear signals that the changes recognise the national importance of food production and provide a framework that enables sustainable long-term investment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cCommercial vegetable growers, in particular, have dealt with significant uncertainty in recent years and they will be hopeful that these reforms lead to clearer, more practical rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cEnabling essential infrastructure, such as water storage, and ensuring our most productive land remains available for high-value food production are fundamental to the resilience of the sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAs always, the impact will depend on how these intentions are translated into policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">Scott said the proposals showed the Government had listened to growers\u2019 concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThese reforms are a step towards ensuring food can continue to be grown in the right places in a way that supports economic, environmental and outcomes for communities up and down the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe look forward to working with the Government as the details are developed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cGrowers will be looking for clear signals that the changes recognise the national importance of food production and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[192,29385,1888,8456,2065,7237,23361,85476,85478,809,130,111,43,139,69,660,2989,4984,29056,8263,85770,21694,6211,21419,6212,25353,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-176438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-are","9":"tag-believes","10":"tag-first","11":"tag-fresh","12":"tag-fruit","13":"tag-governments","14":"tag-growers","15":"tag-horticulture","16":"tag-hortnz","17":"tag-keep","18":"tag-more","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-planning","24":"tag-positive","25":"tag-producing","26":"tag-proposed","27":"tag-reforms","28":"tag-rma","29":"tag-step","30":"tag-system","31":"tag-towards","32":"tag-vegetables","33":"tag-workable","34":"tag-zealand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}