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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Ahuwhenua Trophy 2020 Key Dates
Friday 21 February - Parliamentary Announcement of Finalists
Friday 20 November 2020 - Awards Dinner - Rotorua Energy Events Centre
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'It's an amazing feeling but I didn't expect it' - Maatutaera Tipoki Akonga Te Ao Māori News - 10 May 2020
Ahuwhenua Young Māori Grower Award 2020 finalists announced The Country The Country - 20 April 2020
Maatutaera Tipoki Akonga has been announced as a finalist in the Ahuwhenua Young Māori Grower Award 2020 The Hastings 26-year-old who's responsible for 80 hectares of apple trees HAWKE'S BAY TODAY - 20 April 2020
Three top performing Bay of Plenty orchards are finalists in the inaugural Ahuwhenua Trophy competition to honour excellence in Maori horticulture. Trophy this year honouring Maori horticulture Coast&Country News - 26 March 2020
One of our current 2020 Ahuwhenua Trophy Finalists, Ngai Tukairangi Trust are in the news coming out in support of the horticulture industry, offering opportunities to those with transferable skills, and keeping the health and safety of staff and employees at the forefront.
Kiwifruit industry providing employment for laid off kaimahi Te Ao Māori News - 30 March 2020
Jack Raharuhi, our 2016 Ahuwhenua Young Maori Farmer winner has won another prestigious award, the 2020 Zanda McDonald - we are very proud of him!
Kiwi Jack Raharuhi takes the crown in top Australasian agri-business award Zanda McDonald Award - 25 March 2020
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Largest Maori orchard remains people-focused
Read article about Ngai Tukairangi Trust by MacKenzie Dyer, from Coast & Contry News May/June 2020, pag. 12-13.
Prioritising land and people
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Growing fruit and soil health at Te Kaha
Read article about Hineora Orchard by MacKenzie Dyer, from Coast & Contry News May/June 2020, pag. 46.
Ahuwhenua Young Māori Grower Award 2020 finalists announced
The finalists in the Ahuwhenua Young Māori Grower Award 2020 have been announced. They are:
Brandon Darny Paora Ngamoki Cross, Ngai Tukairangi, Ngai Te Rangi, Te Whanau-a-Apanui, Ngati Porou.
Brandon, 24, works as trainee Orchard Manager for the large kiwifruit orchard management and post-harvest company Seeka.
Maatutaera Tipoki Akonga, Ngai Tahu, Ngati Porou, Ngati Kahungungu.
Maatutaera, 26, works as a Senior Leading Hand at Llewellyn Horticulture based in the Hastings area.
Finnisha Nicola Letitia Tuhiwai, Ngati Te Rino raua ko Te Parawhau nga hapu, ko Ngapuhi te iwi. Finnisha, 25, works as a Packhouse Manager for Maungatapere Berries located west of Whangarei in a rural town ship called Maungatapere.
19 March 2020
Ahuwhenua Trophy Field Days and Awards Dinner Cancelled
The field days and awards dinner planned for New Zealand's most prestigious competition for Maori farmers and horticulturalists has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Each of the finalist's field days would normally attract between 200 and 300 people and the awards dinner could host between 700 and 900 guests.
Kingi Smiler, the Chairman of the Ahuwhenua Trophy Management Committee says "the health and safety of finalists, sponsors, whanau and others is paramount. Following the advice of our health authorities about large gatherings must take precedence."
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The Hineora Orchard / Te Kaha 15B Ahu Whenua Trust
Te Kaha 15B is a Māori freehold land block located in the Eastern Bay of Plenty township of Te Kaha, 65km east of Ōpōtiki. The whenua falls within the tribal rohe of Te Whānau-a-Apanui, and more specifically, is associated with Te Whānau a Te Ehutu hapū.
read more...Otama Marere (Paengaroa North A5) Block
Otama Marere (Paengaroa North A5) Block in Paengaroa near the Bay of Plenty town of Te Puke has gone through a remarkable transition. The land was originally leased to the local golf club on a 60 year lease at two shillings and six pence per acre. When the lease on the 45.01 hectare block expired in the 1980s, Otama Marere took back the land and converted the golf course into an orchard.
read more...Ngai Tukairangi Trust
Ngai Tukairangi Trust is very large kiwifruit operation with one of its orchards, based at Matapihi, just a few kilometres from the centre of Tauranga city. Their land is on a peninsular and was originally used for dairy farming. Forty years ago, a number of family members who owned the dairy farms feared that the land would become incorporated into urban development. They decided that they had a better chance of holding onto it by converting to kiwifruit.
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