Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 23, 2021 4:53:29 GMT 12
HUI TO PUT MĀORI IN DRIVING SEAT TO PROTECT MĀNUKA HONEY MARKETING
A group working to protect mānuka honey in the global marketplace is holding a series of hui with Māori around the country.
The meetings, which got under way in Northland last week, are being held by Mānuka Charitable Trust. The trust's operating arm - Te Pitau - has funding from the government's Provincial Growth Fund to take legal action to stop Australian beekeepers marketing their products as mānuka honey.
Te Pitau chair Victor Goldsmith said mānuka was a Māori word which had important cultural significance and Māori needed to be in the driving seat of efforts to protect it......
www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/438904/hui-to-put-maori-in-driving-seat-to-protect-manuka-honey-marketing
A group working to protect mānuka honey in the global marketplace is holding a series of hui with Māori around the country.
The meetings, which got under way in Northland last week, are being held by Mānuka Charitable Trust. The trust's operating arm - Te Pitau - has funding from the government's Provincial Growth Fund to take legal action to stop Australian beekeepers marketing their products as mānuka honey.
Te Pitau chair Victor Goldsmith said mānuka was a Māori word which had important cultural significance and Māori needed to be in the driving seat of efforts to protect it......
www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/438904/hui-to-put-maori-in-driving-seat-to-protect-manuka-honey-marketing