Welcome to The Agrichain Centre

The AgriChain Centre offers value adding Food Safety, Post Harvest, Biosecurity, Phytosanitary Certification and Knowledge services to businesses and organisations at all points of the food value chain.We are a New Zealand based business with offices on Auckland’s North Shore, as well as in South Auckland, Palmerston North and Christchurch.We work with local as well as international clients to deliver sustainable, pragmatic and value adding solutions.

Independent Verification Agency

We are an Independent Verification Agency (IVA) for the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), authorised to provide Phytosanitary Certification Services.

Projects

Project Management is a discipline in its own right and not something to be done in a spare ten minutes between finishing one task and starting the next.

Industry Services

Our services include achieving the Impossible in the areas of: Fruit Survey, Mystery Shopping, Sampling Programmes, and Food Safety & Biosecurity Advice

Knowledge Central

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The Agrichain Centre

The Agrichain Centre

We operate in the Agribusiness and Food Supply Chain sectors and provide Food Safety, Biosecurity, I

The Massey University online MBA programme has regular guest speakers. Please take a minute to read about Melanie.
Melanie is the Business Manager for The Agrichain Centre, a company that supports the New Zealand fresh produce industry to meet its broad compliance needs domestically and internationally. The AgriChain Centre straddles the line between research and practical implementation to support industry with two main business divisions, Projects and Services. Each business unit has contrasting needs and therefore requires different management strategies.
Melanie spoke to our online MBA students last week about these strategies and shared her expert insights.

Thanks Melanie.
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