kvh Chairman Simon Cook 2024 POLICIES AND REPORTS Annual Updates

KVH – and our growers – are in a good position tomeet current and future biosecurity challenges.新西蘭KVH董事長2024年度報告內(nèi)容

▲Kiwifruit Vine Health (KVH)Simon Cook Grower Representative and Chair

Firstly, I want to acknowledge how difficult the last year has been for many of us. Poor bud breaks,storms, frosts and floods have done significant damage to vines and crops across the industry. It is pleasing to note that as a whole we’rve bounced back with a record crop being harvested, however this will hide the fact that for a number of growers,there is a long path to recovery in front of them.
The poor growing season last year also stretched to industry organisations who all suffered with the significantly reduced crop. KVH was no exception and at the start of the year was forecasting a loss for the current year in the vicinity of $700k. I would like to acknowledge the leadership of our Chief Executive Leanne Stewart, and her team, who have done a great job of managing costs, whilst still delivering the high levels of service that is expected of KVH, and in the end made a saving of $280k during this period.
While there is a lot outside of our control, and always will be, we are doing all we can to increase our readiness and preparedness and achieve the best possible outcomes for the kiwifruit industry.
When we talk about “being prepared” in the biosecurity space, it isn’t centred around having one plan at the KVH office and opening it when we need to, telling people what to do. We’re here to help you, our grower members, post-harvest facilities, and industry organisations we all interact with, to understand what could be at risk if we aren’t vigilant to spot, and then ready to react, to any new, harmful pest or disease. Likewise, with support of growers last year, KVH now works in the Emergency Response Management (ERM) space to ensure the industry is prepared and can be resilient against future severe adverse events that impacts vine health.
It’s about everyone having a place in biosecurity and emergency preparedness and being accountable, so that we can protect what we’ve got and keep our orchards, businesses, and communities safe and productive.
As such, much of our work in this readiness space is undertaken in collaboration with others, as you’ll read in articles on pages 16. KVH has long been an active and influencing partner in the Government Industry Agreement for Biosecurity Readiness and Response (GIA), creating clear plans in advance for how we – KVH, other industry groups, and government – jointly respond to specific incursions, including cost-sharing.
GIA celebrated its 10-year anniversary this May, and you’ll see in the article reflecting on this that there are numerous continuing benefits for kiwifruit growers.
Collaboration is also key to how we practice our responses. We talk about exercises on page 10, in particular “Exercise Tracey” which was run alongside Biosecurity New Zealand and Onside at the KVH Symposium in 2023. Over 100 people in the room that day – from across the kiwifruit industry and wider biosecurity roles in and outside the region – teamed up to work through an immersive simulation of an incursion of?Ceratocystis Wilt?in Te Puke.
With so much wide-ranging experience and skillsets in the room, not only do these exercises hone our response expertise, but they also bring forth another important element of readiness. New questions, new “what ifs”, creating new queries, and finding new ways of answering what can often be quite complex questions.
This is invaluable. Being a grower myself, I know how important it is to feel confident that not only are we capable to respond appropriately, but we’re also capable of pivoting and changing with new and emerging risks and challenges. In a response (as many of us will recall from Psa and perhaps other incursions you’ve been involved in) this can happen every day.
Which brings me to what can often be the backbone or foundation of a biosecurity response.
Science and research. When events are regularly changing, situations evolving, and prediction becoming increasingly important to limiting on-orchard impacts, we continue to turn to our research – and our research partners – for input.
The kiwifruit industry biosecurity research portfolio is of particular interest to the KVH Board, and innovation is one of the priorities of KVH’s organisational strategy. From page 17 onwards you will see summaries of several projects undertaken within this portfolio over the last year, their scientific findings, and practical output.
KVH and Zespri Innovation collaboratively fund and support this research portfolio. Without it, we’d very likely find ourselves on the back foot and unable to catch up if we were knee-deep in an incursion.
The case studies we’ve included in this Annual Update prove that by investing in science and innovation we improve our knowledge and understanding of biosecurity threats and create better tools for responding so that we lessen impacts.
They also demonstrate that sometimes, especially in cases of unusual symptoms being seen on vines, the various research projects and people we have as resources to refer to, help effectively and quickly ascertain whether something is new to New Zealand versus newly discovered, any new variants at play, and how widespread, or not, it may be.
Neonectria microconidia is a great example of how KVH investigated a new detection and worked with Zespri Innovation and research providers to deliver knowledge to understand the organism; provide management advice; and then transitioned this knowledge into the crop protection space.
I strongly believe that the organisation is in a position this year, and going forward, to meet all its goals on behalf of kiwifruit growers and help ensure a ready and resilient kiwifruit industry.
Thank you to the KVH team and my fellow Board members for another successful year and your continued dedication.

首先，我想承認(rèn)，去年對我們許多人來說是多么困難。糟糕的芽裂、風(fēng)暴、霜凍和洪水對整個行業(yè)的葡萄藤和作物造成了重大損害。令人欣慰的是，總體而言，我們已經(jīng)反彈，收獲了創(chuàng)紀(jì)錄的作物，但這將掩蓋一個事實(shí)，即對于許多種植者來說，他們還有很長的復(fù)蘇之路。
去年糟糕的生長季節(jié)也延伸到了行業(yè)組織，他們都受到了作物大幅減產(chǎn)的影響。KVH也不例外，年初預(yù)測本年度虧損約70萬美元。我要感謝我們的首席執(zhí)行官Leanne Stewart及其團(tuán)隊的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)，他們在管理成本方面做得很好，同時仍然提供了KVH所期望的高水平服務(wù)，并在此期間節(jié)省了28萬美元。
雖然有很多事情是我們無法控制的，而且永遠(yuǎn)都是，但我們正在盡一切努力提高我們的準(zhǔn)備和準(zhǔn)備，為獼猴桃行業(yè)取得最佳成果。
當(dāng)我們談?wù)撛谏锇踩I(lǐng)域“做好準(zhǔn)備”時，它并不是圍繞著在KVH辦公室制定一個計劃，并在需要時打開它，告訴人們該做什么。我們在這里幫助你、我們的種植者成員、收獲后的設(shè)施和我們所接觸的行業(yè)組織，了解如果我們不警惕地發(fā)現(xiàn)并準(zhǔn)備好應(yīng)對任何新的有害害蟲或疾病，可能會有什么風(fēng)險。同樣，在去年種植者的支持下，KVH現(xiàn)在在應(yīng)急響應(yīng)管理（ERM）領(lǐng)域工作，以確保該行業(yè)做好準(zhǔn)備，能夠抵御未來影響葡萄藤健康的嚴(yán)重不良事件。
這是關(guān)于每個人在生物安全和應(yīng)急準(zhǔn)備中都有一席之地，并承擔(dān)責(zé)任，這樣我們就可以保護(hù)我們所擁有的東西，并保持我們的果園、企業(yè)和社區(qū)的安全和生產(chǎn)力。
因此，正如您將在第16頁的文章中看到的那樣，我們在這個準(zhǔn)備空間的大部分工作都是與其他人合作進(jìn)行的。長期以來，KVH一直是《政府-行業(yè)生物安全準(zhǔn)備和應(yīng)對協(xié)議》（GIA）中積極和有影響力的合作伙伴，為我們——KVH、其他行業(yè)團(tuán)體和政府——如何共同應(yīng)對具體入侵，包括成本分擔(dān)，提前制定了明確的計劃。
今年5月，GIA慶祝了成立10周年，您將在文章中看到，獼猴桃種植者將繼續(xù)受益匪淺。
協(xié)作也是我們?nèi)绾尉毩?xí)反應(yīng)的關(guān)鍵。我們在第10頁討論了演習(xí)，特別是2023年KVH研討會上與新西蘭生物安全局和Onside一起進(jìn)行的“演習(xí)追蹤”。當(dāng)天，來自獼猴桃行業(yè)和該地區(qū)內(nèi)外更廣泛的生物安全角色的100多人在房間里合作，對特普克的威爾特角鯊入侵進(jìn)行了身臨其境的模擬。
房間里有這么多廣泛的經(jīng)驗(yàn)和技能，這些練習(xí)不僅磨練了我們的應(yīng)對能力，還帶來了另一個重要的準(zhǔn)備因素。新問題，新的“假設(shè)”，創(chuàng)建新的查詢，并找到新的方法來回答通常非常復(fù)雜的問題。
這是無價的。作為一名種植者，我知道自信是多么重要，我們不僅有能力做出適當(dāng)?shù)姆磻?yīng)，而且有能力隨著新的和新興的風(fēng)險和挑戰(zhàn)而調(diào)整和改變。作為回應(yīng)（我們中的許多人會記得Psa，也許還有你參與過的其他入侵），這每天都會發(fā)生。
這讓我想到了生物安全反應(yīng)的支柱或基礎(chǔ)。
科學(xué)和研究。當(dāng)事件經(jīng)常發(fā)生變化，情況不斷演變，預(yù)測對限制果園影響變得越來越重要時，我們繼續(xù)向我們的研究和我們的研究合作伙伴尋求意見。
獼猴桃產(chǎn)業(yè)生物安全研究組合是KVH董事會特別感興趣的，創(chuàng)新是KVH組織戰(zhàn)略的優(yōu)先事項之一。從第17頁開始，您將看到過去一年該項目組合中開展的幾個項目的摘要、他們的科學(xué)發(fā)現(xiàn)和實(shí)際產(chǎn)出。
KVH和Zespri Innovation共同資助和支持這一研究組合。如果沒有它，我們很可能會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己處于劣勢，如果我們陷入膝蓋深的入侵，就無法趕上。
我們在本年度更新中包含的案例研究證明，通過投資于科學(xué)和創(chuàng)新，我們提高了對生物安全威脅的認(rèn)識和理解，并創(chuàng)造了更好的應(yīng)對工具，從而減少了影響。
他們還表明，有時，特別是在葡萄藤上出現(xiàn)異常癥狀的情況下，我們可以參考的各種研究項目和人員，有助于有效快速地確定新西蘭的新事物與新發(fā)現(xiàn)的事物、任何新的變異，以及它可能有多普遍。
微小新蜜環(huán)菌是KVH如何研究新檢測方法并與Zespri Innovation和研究提供商合作提供知識以了解該生物體的一個很好的例子；提供管理建議；然后將這些知識轉(zhuǎn)移到作物保護(hù)領(lǐng)域。
我堅信，該組織今年和未來都有能力代表獼猴桃種植者實(shí)現(xiàn)其所有目標(biāo)，并幫助確保獼猴桃產(chǎn)業(yè)的準(zhǔn)備和彈性。
感謝KVH團(tuán)隊和我的董事會成員再次取得成功，并感謝你們的持續(xù)奉獻(xiàn)。