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.

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Independent Verification Agency

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

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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.

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Industry Services

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

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Knowledge Central

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  • February 9, 2021

    Perception is 9/10th of Reality – Happy 2021!

    When is a PAK’nSAVE not a big yellow store with plenty of car parks around it? That’s right, when the store is located on the main road between Apia and Samoa’s Faleolo international airport. The store is yellow alright, but Read More

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  • September 30, 2020

    My New Book – Fair & Sustainable Produce Prices

    I am sitting here at my keyboard, just like last year, and the year before, writing a blog entry. It is spring in New Zealand. The evergreen Azaleas are coming to the end of their flowering cycle, the first columbines Read More

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  • September 12, 2020

    Apples Need To Be Picked To Earn Export Dollars

    It is not easy being Minister of Immigration. Particularly in Covid times. New Zealand is a very attractive destination for people from around the world at the best of times; for tourists, as well as people intent to build a Read More

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  • September 2, 2020

    North Korea – The Next Global Banana Merchant?

    Global warming is causing all sorts of rethinks. The English county of Kent these days has a burgeoning wine industry. There wasn’t a wine maker in sight in my days in London in the seventies. Wine culture at the time Read More

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