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Agriculture in the Christchurch Rebuild
Presentation to Seismics and the City
William Rolleston
We Live in an Age of Unprecedented Scientific Discovery
Issues
• Population• Land• Food Security• Food safety• Environment– Climate Change– Water
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Land Availability for Food Production
What will the world expect of us?
Reduced productionOR
More efficient/effectiveuse of resources
What contribution can Canterbury make to address these issues and help ourselves?
Rural/Urban Divide• Water
– Dirty Dairying• Factory Farming
– Pigs, hens, cattle• Transpower• ETS• Tenure Review• Genetic Modification• 1080
Science In SocietyScience/Agriculture
Advances
Digital Physical
Biological
Digital• Robotics
– Driverless tractors– Milking– Drones– Swarm Technology/Game Theory
• Real Time Monitoring/Control– Soil
• Moisture, Nutrients/Fertility– Animals
• Temp, pH, location, fences– Rivers
• Flows, nutrients– Consent rules
Physical
• Water – Storage/Harvesting• Opuha, Coleridge, Rangatata South, Central Plains
– Usage• Hydoelectric• Plant efficiency
– Repositioning• Hunter Downs, Burke’s Pass• Landsborough
Biological
• Conventional Breeding– Selection Breeding– Chemical/Radiation Mutagenesis– Embryo Rescue, Protoplast fusion
• DNA revolution– Marker Assisted Breeding
• Conventional, Organic– Transgenics– Cisgenics– Gene Editing
Biological• Productivity Environmental Footprint– Photosynthesis (C3->C4)– Nitrogen, Water,
• Production Diversity– Sheep milking– Seed production– Biofuels– Niche Products
• Pharmaceutical/industrial/nutritional
• System Diversity– Conventional, Organic, Biotech
Christchurch
• Commerce, Manufacturing• Market Place• Intellectual Property– Electronics– Software– Engineering– Lincoln Hub, University of Canterbury
Rural Canterbury• Agriculture• Processing
– Dairy• Darfield, Clandeboye, Studholme, • Synlait, Oceania
– Sheep and Beef• Alliance, SFF• ANSCO, AFFCO
– Other• Farmers Mill, Mt Cook Salmon, Heartland, SPS
• Ports– Timaru, Lyttelton
FarmsRegional
Community(Processing)
ProductionProduction
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Community(Processing)
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Regional Community(Processing)
ChristchurchIP/Market
Making the Best Useof our Resources
• Infrastucture– Transport
• Roads, Ports– Digital
• Fibre, Broadband– Water– Education/Research
• Skills, Public/Science
• Regulation– Enabling– Adaptable
Thank You
A Strong Canterbury
A Strong Christchurch