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Farming

Room for optimism after difficult year

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Cyclones Gabrielle and Hale played a huge part in defining the 2023 year for the region’s farmers, horticulturists and growers and it has been a very tough year for so many of them. The images of damaged pasture and crops will live on in the memory as the rehabilitation of the region’s primary sector continues. File picture

by Hunaara Waerehu

President Gisborne-Wairoa Federated Farmers

Tairāwhiti farmers have faced significant challenges in the past 12 months, including but not limited to the impacts from both Cyclone Hale and Cyclone Gabrielle, and more challenges to come. However, there are things we should be optimistic about.

The two cyclonic events devastated our region, leaving a landscape strewn with woody...

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