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The Week in Detail: India, mānuka and 'greedflation'
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
The Week in Detail: India, mānuka and 'greedflation'
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.
Audio'Liquid gold': East Cape's mānuka oil and the company driving research into it
Oil from manuka trees grown in East Cape is being used to develop treatments for skin infections that are usually only cured by antibiotics. Manuka was used as a traditional medicine by Maori, and in… Audio
Honey fingerprints and plant powers
Claire learns about honey fingerprinting while Katy Gosset meets a scientist studying the anti-microbial properties of some native plants. Audio
Honey fingerprints and plant powers
Claire learns about honey fingerprinting while Katy Gosset meets a scientist studying the anti-microbial properties of some native plants.
AudioChoosing the Right Genes
Dr David Chagne and his team from Plant and Food Research are working on ways to speed up improvements consumers and industry want to see in our plants and crops.. Audio
Choosing the Right Genes
Dr David Chagne and his team from Plant and Food Research are working on ways to speed up improvements consumers and industry want to see in our plants and crops..
AudioHoney company fined for adding chemicals to product
In the first case of its kind, an Auckland honey company has been fined $260,000 for boosting its product with chemicals to sweeten its value. Audio
Restoring Lake Waikare one tree at a time
Waikato iwi have joined forces with ESR scientists and community volunteers – including rugby league legend Tawera Nikauto and his family – to plant thousands of native plants around Lake Waikare in… Audio
Restoring Lake Waikare one tree at a time
Waikato iwi have joined forces with ESR scientists and community volunteers – including rugby league legend Tawera Nikauto and his family – to plant thousands of native plants around Lake Waikare in…
AudioManuka honey from farmed plantations
There are plans to produce more manuka honey from farmed plantations rather than from bees foraging nectar in the wild. John Rawcliffe from the Unique Manuka Factor Honey Association joins us to tell… Audio
Our Changing World for 25 October 2018
A project to map manuka flowering and help bee keepers pick the best places for their hives, and screening native plants to find resistance to myrtle rust. Audio
Setting the Standard
Midlands Apiaries' Adam Boot is all for manuka honey sold domestically having to meet the same standards as manuka honey sent overseas. Audio
Setting the Standard
Midlands Apiaries' Adam Boot is all for manuka honey sold domestically having to meet the same standards as manuka honey sent overseas.
AudioShane Jones on the billion trees plan
Kathryn Ryan speaks to the minister responsible for planting a billion trees in ten years - Shane Jones, following questions on what to plant, where and who will decide. This follows urgent calls from… Audio
Beekeepers welcome MPI U-turn on Manuka honey
NZ Beekeeping was set to take MPI to the High Court, starting today, over its proposed export standard on the premium honey. The industry group maintained that the standard would have meant more than… Audio
Call for public's views on honey
A Parliament select committee is calling for submissions on its inquiry into honey including the definition of manuka and branding in international markets. Audio
Call for public's views on honey
A Parliament select committee is calling for submissions on its inquiry into honey including the definition of manuka and branding in international markets.
AudioMidday Rural News for 20 September 2017
A new study has found that manuka and kanuka plants reduce nitrate leeching into waterways. Audio
As busy as a bee
James Malcolm first got the honey bug from a beekeeper who worked on his parents cropping farm near Ashburton. Now the hard working 29-year-old owns thousands of hives. Audio
