MEMBER BENEFITS

NZPPI supports your business and our industry

NZPPI ensures that the voice of plant producers is heard in forums with other primary industries and local and central government.
We speak for the industry in areas such as plant imports, native afforestation, biosecurity, GIA, pest plants and urban greenlife planting.
We connect our industry to research and innovation to support best practice for productivity, plant health and biosecurity.
We work across the industry as it adapts to sustainability policies in areas like plastic stewardship rules and the use of water and energy.
Our Science Sub-Committee links our industry to plant science and extension. We have relationships with research institutes and Lincoln University.

NZPPI has a dedicated technical and biosecurity manager and an extension co-ordinator who can give you advice on incursions, disease management and plant imports.
We hold regular disease management workshops and other events to help improve your plant production knowledge.
We send out weekly disease management email updates, regularly publish disease management protocols, develop best practice guidelines and publish an annual Plant Production Science magazine.
We are managers of Plant Pass, the voluntary certification scheme that promotes and supports good biosecurity practice in the nursery and its supply chain.

Our members receive a substantial discount on our plant trolleys scheme, which saves you time and money.
Our Plant Careers programme provides scholarships and professional development opportunities, including the annual Young Plant Producer of the Year competition.
We offer networking opportunities through our industry conference, innovation days and other events.
We partner with other agencies to undertake surveys, which provides our industry with valuable data and insights.