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High Performance Manuka Plantations Manuka Research Partnership Ltd PGP Project $2.7 M Manuka Plantation PGP Research Project with Ministry of Primary Industries 8 Year Timeline - 2011 to 2018 Massey University Research

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High Performance Manuka Plantations

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Manuka Research Partnership Ltd – PGP Project

 $2.7 M Manuka Plantation PGP Research Project

with Ministry of Primary Industries

 8 Year Timeline - 2011 to 2018  Massey University – Research Provider  Comvita providing Manuka Plants to the Project

from its Plant Breeding Program

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Program Objectives

To develop the necessary Manuka Plantation husbandry knowledge to enable productivity gains resulting in a 16-fold increase in market returns from Manuka honey by doubling each of:

 Hives per ha  Manuka honey yield per hive  Manuka honey that meets medical grade  Land area in Manuka economically accessible to

beekeepers Net effect  $1b Exports

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The MRPL Co-investors

 Comvita New Zealand Ltd

 23,000 + hives, brand and distribution, ≈$100 M turnover

 D and C Tweeddale

 19,000+ hives ~ 60 Ha of Manuka plantation over 2 sites

 Nukuhau Carbon Ltd

 26 Ha planted at Rangitatau West

 Arborex Industries – Te Awaiti station, Wairarapa  Landcorp

 State Owned Enterprise operating 137 properties totalling

377,000 ha across the North and South Islands of NZ

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The MRPL Co-investors

 Hawkes Bay Regional Council

 150 ha planted at Lake Tutira  Seeking to prove Manuka plantation as viable investment to

encourage an alternative land use option

New Partner who has agreed in principle to join:

 Te Tumu Paeroa

 100,000 ha approx under Management  Including 30,000ha approx of marginal land

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Manuka Plantation Deliverables for Land Owners

  • Best Practice Seedling Propagation
  • Best Practice Plantation Establishment
  • Assess Manuka Provenance & Hybrid Performance
  • Build Flowering & Production Profile & Parameters
  • Prove Financial Business Case to retire Marginal Land
  • WORK IN PROGRESS – 4 YEAR REMAINING TIMELINE
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Sample of Current Projects

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Glasshouse & growth chamber studies on Manuka cultivars to examine influence of environmental factors on performance

  • 2. Commercial field trials to understand best practice

plantation establishment & management

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Develop predictive tools to advise most suitable cultivars and best practice husbandry under particular plantation conditions

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Programme so far > 2011-2013

 From glasshouse

& plantations:

 Major soil effects  Cultivar effects  Aspect and local effects

Variability creates

  • pportunity
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Assess variability & exploit

Site 1 DHA in nectar

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Early plantation success

Plantation manuka Plantation manuka theoretical harvest Local manuka 2012 Local manuka historical

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Hives on ordinary site

Pasture Pasture Kanuka Kanuka Kanuka Manuka Mixed Manuka & Kanuka

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Improved cultivars, extend flowering, increase value

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Commercial Field Trials

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Current Sites

  • 30 sites totalling 745ha including 596ha Comvita

Plantations

  • Sites targeted to provide a regional and

environmental spread of field data

  • Intend Plantations to provide a showcase to regions

>>> encouraging faster uptake

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Map of Expanded PGP Field Trial Sites

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Current Modelling

  • Establishment costs of approximately $2,000 per ha
  • Planting density of 1,100 stems per Ha (3m * 3m

spacings)

  • 25 Year production life
  • Floral Maturity in 6 years
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Establishment at Tutira (HBRC)

  • Summer-dry
  • Exposed
  • Range of seed

lines examined

  • 1000 stems/ha
  • 156ha

established

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Establishment at Tutira (HBRC)

  • Survival

95% in good summer 85% in bad summer

  • Growth (height)

≈ 80cm 1st year ≈ 130cm 2nd year

  • Flowering

≈ 100% for most lines in 2nd year

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Comvita Manuka Breeding Program

  • Commenced in 2006
  • Plant Variety Rights registered on Hybrids
  • Breeding of 2nd Generation Hybrids

underway

  • Manuka seedlings provided to MRPL

project which are being evaluated in Glasshouse & Field Trials

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A contrast, wild vs improved Manuka

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Integrated Plantation & Apiary Management

 Manuka plantation performance > 1st Leg  Conversion of nectar into honey > 2nd Leg  Understanding/optimising apiary performance >

critical to value

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Proving the Business Case is When “The Rubber Hits the Road”

KEY VARIABLES [AT MATURITY]

NATURAL MANUKA WORSE CASE? MID-CASE? BEST CASE? HIVES PER HA

1.0 1.0 1.5 2.0

PRODUCTION PER HIVE (KG)

20 30 35 40

UMF HONEY VALUE PER KG

$15.00 $20.00 $30.00 $40.00

APIARY REVENUE PER HA

$300.00 $600.00 $1,575.00 $3,200.00

LANDOWNER REVENUE SHARE

15% 30% 30% 30%

LANDOWNER INCOME PER HA **

45 $ 180 $ 473 $ 960 $

LANDOWNER INVESTMENT RETURN (MARGINAL IRR)???

4.60% 16.70% 29.30%

PLANTATION MANUKA

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  • MRPL project is work in progress – 2018 completion

date

  • Initial results are promising
  • New generation of Manuka hybrids in the pipeline
  • Comvita looking to expand its Plantation program

and are keen to talk to Owners wishing to retire land

  • Consider “Trees for Bees” integration into planting

Take Home Messages

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Plantation Manuka - Benefits to rural NZ

  • Commercialise alternative land use for marginal land in NZ
  • Macro environmental & economic benefit – Pure NZ Story
  • Flow-on benefits of wealth creation through honey industry
  • Capability development – new beekeepers & cadets