Tuesday, 23 February 2021, 4:43 pm
The Venture Taranaki initiative Branching Out is a
collaborative exercise to investigate, explore, package, and
potentially pilot new commercial opportunities that could
add sustainable value to Taranaki’s economy and help the
region’s food and fibre sector become more diverse,
resilient, innovative and in-demand.
Through the
initiative 10-12 high-potential ventures will be identified
and analysed for their feasibility. In October 2020,
we hosted the project’s first in-person event exploring
kiwifruit as a high-potential venture. Now we will look at
avocado’s potential. Avocados are a proven success story
in other parts of the country, so it is worth consideration