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Article: NEW ZEALAND: WOOL SECTOR TASKFORCE ANNOUNCED
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 8, 2009
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Oct. 8 -- The government of New Zealand issued the following news release:
Agriculture Minister David Carter has appointed an eight-member taskforce to help steer the future direction of the wool industry.
Mr Carter says a recent meeting he called of sector representatives agreed that united action was necessary to lift the state of the ailing industry and that a taskforce was the best way to achieve this.
"The role of this group will be to build a cohesive, sector-wide strategy to lift the returns for New Zealand wool. Everyone from growers and processors to brokers and exporters is looking for a common solution.
"This taskforce draws on expertise from across the ...