Meadow Mushrooms co-founder and former National Government minister Philip Burdon urged businesses to strive for international standards despite our comfortable isolation from world markets.
At the official opening of the $45 million expansion of New Zealand's largest mushroom-growing business and its 40th anniversary attended by around 400 guests
The expansion includes large growing rooms for the Dutch shelf-system of growing and new packing sheds. A larger composting plant with more advanced technology has been built next to the former plant at Norwood, near Dunsandel. By MARTA STEEMAN