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ECONOMICS
Northtec has prepared an economic study on the positive impact of co-ordinating and increasing Northland banana production so that we can supply the bulk of NZs requirements for bananas and pineapples/

Innovation Well Underway
TROPICAL CLIMATE
Growers like our Green Guru Owen Schafli have already proved that Northlands climate can successfully grow pineapples, sugar cane, coffee, bananas and prickly pears on a commercial scale.
Warmer areas south of Auckland can most likely do this too.


Local is healthier
NUTRITION
NZ grown bananas, pineapples and other tropical fruits adapt well to this climate. They ripen more slowly, but as they are not being shipped internationally, these fruits can ripen naturally and evolve to their full nutritional spectrum - very different to the imported fare we buy in supermarkets.

Farms can be cleaner and greener
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Banana plantations have a role to play in helping to clean the surroundings of dairy effluent ponds, and all parts of the plant are edible for cattle, so the banana plants can potentially replace imported stockfood like PKE.
WANT TO BECOME A MEMBER?
Just let us know your name, address, email address and mobile number (email tfgnzinfo@gmail.com) and pay $20 by internet banking to: Kiwibank 38-9019-0465466-01. Membership is $20 for the financial year to 31 March 2021.
Please put your name or email address as the reference so we know it’s you 😊
THE TEAM
Your 2019 committee

HUGH ROSE
Chair
Boutique banana plantation owner, plant procurer.

KAREN POTTER
Treasurer
Dairy farmer and plantation owner

PAULINE ROSE
Secretary
Uber Group (broadband) COO, lotus grower

OWEN SCHAFLI
Committee Member
Founding committee member, tropical fruit guru

LINDA SCHAFLI
Committee Member
Founding committee member, banana, pineapple grower

BARRY PYLE
Committee Member
Retired environmental
microbiologist from Ruakaka.

STEVE BARNARD
Committee Member
Plantation owner, small farm
locum

ROSS& KAREN POTTER
Committee Members
Dairy farmers, banana
plantation owners

STAN & SANDRA WINDELBOURNE
Committee Members
Banana plantation owners, beef farmers & contractors

ALEX EDWARDS
Committee Member
IT specialist and horse trekking business owner with an interest in tropical fruits.
WHAT WE PROVIDE MEMBERS WITH
Knowledge. Support. Plant Stock.
We provide knowledge and expertise as well as a place where members can trade plants.
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