Ministry for Primary Industries (New Zealand)

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) (Māori: Manatū Ahu Matua) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with overseeing, managing and regulating the farming, fishing, food, animal welfare, biosecurity, and forestry sectors of New Zealand's primary industries. In December 2017, Agriculture, Food Safety and Biosecurity Minister Damien O'Connor announced that the Ministry of Primary Industries would be reorganised into four entities: Fisheries New Zealand, Forestry New Zealand, Biosecurity New Zealand and New Zealand Food Safety, existing within the one ministry.[2]

Ministry for Primary Industries
Māori: Manatū Ahu Matua
Ministry overview
Formed30 April 2012 (2012-04-30)
Preceding agencies
JurisdictionNew Zealand
Headquarters
Annual budgetTotal budgets for 2019/20[1]
Vote Agriculture, Biosecurity, Fisheries and Food Safety
$848,779,000
Vote Forestry
$277,099,000
Ministers responsible
Ministry executive
  • Ray Smith, Director-General
Child agencies
  • Agriculture & Investment Services
  • Biosecurity New Zealand
  • Fisheries New Zealand
  • New Zealand Food Safety
  • Te Uru Rākau (Maori for 'Forestry New Zealand')
Websitewww.mpi.govt.nz

History

Formed in April 2012, MPI is a merger of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), the Ministry of Fisheries (MFish), and the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA).[3]

Ministers

The Ministry serves 6 portfolios, 4 ministers, an associate minister and a parliamentary under-secretary.

OFFICEHOLDERPORTFOLIO(S)OTHER RESPONSIBILITY(IES)
Hon Damien O'ConnorLead Minister (Ministry for Primary Industries)
Minister of Agriculture
Minister for Biosecurity
Minister for Rural Communities
Hon Stuart NashMinister of Forestry
Hon David ParkerMinister for Oceans and Fisheries
Hon Dr Ayesha VerrallMinister for Food Safety
Hon Meka WhaitiriAssociate Minister of Agriculture (Animal Welfare)
Rino TirikateneParliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries

List of Ministers for Primary Industries
See also: Minister of Agriculture (New Zealand), Minister of Fisheries (New Zealand), and Minister of Forestry (New Zealand)
Colour key
(for political parties)
  National  
No. Name Portrait Term of office Party
1 David Carter 14 December 2011 28 January 2013 Key
2 Nathan Guy 28 January 2013 26 October 2017
English

See also

References
  1. "Summary Tables for the Estimates of Appropriations 2019/20 - Total Appropriations for Each Vote". Budget 2019. The Treasury.
  2. https://pro.newsroom.co.nz/articles/2333-o-connor-keeps-mpi-as-one-ministry-but-with-4-entities
  3. Carter, David (6 March 2012). "MAF to become Ministry for Primary Industries" (Press release). New Zealand Government.
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