agricultural environmental technology 11 june ‘09 – korea / nz business roundtable seoul
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Agricultural Environmental Technology
11 June ‘09 – Korea / NZ Business RoundtableSeoul
Presentation Outline
Agricultural Environmental Technology
• Harmonic Involvement in NZ and Korean ICT Sector
• NZ Farming Practices
• Export Success Stories
• Environmental Management Practices
• Re:Generation
• Collaboration Opportunities
Introducing Harmonic (1 of 2)
• Industry funded, backed by investment companies
• Research, development & commercialisation of software solutions for the Telco, Farming & Electricity sectors
• Key relationships with Telecom NZ, Gen-i, TruTest, Alcatel-Lucent & Transpower
• Linked to a national academia pool through Universities
• Highly skilled staff, including agricultural scientists, engineers, developers, IT architects and statisticians
A Research & Development (R&D) company
Introducing Harmonic (2 of 2)
• Involved in Korea NZ ICT science and broadband collaboration since 2004
• Respect for Korea’s belief in the (RD&C) innovation cycle and the economic benefits accruing
• Led several ICT Delegations
• Helped establish ICT R&D projects between ETRI and NZ universities
• Involved in the Korea Australia NZ Broadband Summit (KANZ)
Facilitating the Korea / NZ ICT relationship
NZ Farmer Profile
• Hard working, innovative, practical, risk taking business people
• Farms are capital intensive, complex business operations with a long term investment horizon
• An export mindset – belief in innovative marketing supported by technology
• Underserved by broadband
• Prominent advocates of R&D
Entrepreneurial and early adopters of technology
Export Success Stories (1 of 2)
• In the 1930s, Gallagher invented electric fencing systems and other animal control systems
• The invention revolutionised farm grazing around the globe – even used to fortify Buckingham Palace
• A successful exporter with a >$100M turnover and distribution channels into more than 130 countries
• Remains a significant investor in R&D
Leading NZ Agricultural Technology Companies
Export Success Stories (2 of 2)
• Another successful exporter with a >$100M turnover
• Export to 70 countries with fully owned subsidiaries or JVs in America, Australia, Mexico and Brazil
• Tru-Test sells 95% of the world's milk meters and is a global leader in animal weighing equipment
• A significant investor in R&D across NZ universities and Research Institutes
Leading NZ Agricultural Technology Companies
Environmental Management
• NZ dairy industry continually explores ways to improve sustainability and reduce environmental impact
• The environment and sustainability are core tenets of the recently released Dairy NZ Strategy for New Zealand Dairy Farming 2009-2020
• Individual farmers and industry actively work to maintain the sustainability for these resources for future generations
Farmers respect their role as stewards of the land
Effluent Management
Dairy Effluent Management is of particular interest
• As dairy farms intensify and become larger operations with more staff – effluent management gets harder to do right, all the time
• Farmers pay large fines to Regional authorities for environmental breaches
• Re:Generation, a solution made possible through advances in both environmental sensing technologies and agricultural science
• It provides a decision support tool for the land application of dairy effluent
Re:Generation
A national initiative managed by Harmonic
• Reduces environmental impact of dairy effluent, while utilising effluent in the most efficient way
• Easy to use and understand, information delivered to mobile phones and PC
• Funded by Government agencies (FRST and MAF) as well as Dairy Sector (DairyNZ) and industry
• National Trial across Dairy regions
Re:Generation Animation
Collaborative Solutions
• Recent experience with ETRI suggests there is strong potential for logical collaboration
• NZ sees significant potential in the commercialisation of environmental management solutions
• Korean leadership is recognised in core components, such as sensor and wireless technologies
• Collaboration in NZ trials will create more robust, efficient environmental systems
NZ and Korea Collaborate Effectively
Summary
• NZ and Korea are already successfully collaborating in the field of ICT R&D
• There is a good opportunity for further ICT collaboration in the agricultural sector
• Combined, we can create a global opportunity
• We know we can work together…
…Let’s do some more
Let’s maintain momentum
