The Ahuwhenua Trophy acknowledges and celebrates business excellence in New Zealand's important pastoral and horticultural sectors. This competition is held annually, alternating each year between dairy and sheep & beef, and now also horticulture. The upcoming 2020 competition is for Māori horticulturalists.
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Parliamentary Announcement of Finalists - Date TBC
Thursday 26 March - Location TBC - Field Day 1
Thursday 2 April - Location TBC - Field Day 2
Thursday 9 April - Location TBC - Field Day 3
Friday 22nd May 2020 - Awards Dinner - Trustpower Baypark Stadium & Arena, Tauranga
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Ahuwhenua Trophy Competition for Horticulture Launched
Ahuwhenua Trophy Chairman Kingi Smiler says it is great to have the support of Horticulture New Zealand and the various sector groups who are sponsoring and supporting the new Ahuwhenua Trophy competition for horticulture, which was launched last night at the HortNZ Conference Gala Dinner by the Hon Nanaia Mahuta.
Barry O'Neil President of Horticulture NZ, Hon Nanaia Mahuta Minister of Maori Development and Kingi Smiler Chairman of the Ahuwhenua Management Committee.
He says it was logical and timely to have a separate event to recognise the Maori contribution to horticulture. For more than two centuries, Maori have exported horticultural products – a fact not widely recognised in New Zealand.
