kvh Leanne Stewart Chief Executive 2024 POLICIES AND REPORTS Annual Updates

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kvh Leanne Stewart Chief Executive 2024 POLICIES AND REPORTS Annual Updates

新西蘭KVH總經(jīng)理2024年度報(bào)告內(nèi)容

Looking back over the past year, KVH has achieved many things, not least a successful inaugural Biosecurity Symposium.
Held in August 2023, the aim of creating the event was to showcase how far we’ve come (as an organisation and industry) in our biosecurity practices, reparedness, and adaptability to changes in risk. We also wanted to create an environment of shared biosecurity experience and knowledge, so that we all continue to raise the biosecurity bar and ensure our ontinued resilience to pest and disease threats.
As the Board Chair notes, the Symposium included a response simulation (read more on page 10). The practicalities of a response - real or as part of a training exercise - is something I want to highlight, because this is the level of readiness that we need to successfully meet our response goals if we are ever faced with a major incursion.
We have had a big focus at KVH, and through our KiwiNet network of champions, on building capability and ensuring the kiwifruit industry is ready to respond if needs be. This means getting down to such practical elements as training, practicing, writing plans, creating templates, arranging logistics, having the right tools and software. All things that enable us to effectively initiate support activities for growers and get it right, from the start.
The same model for biosecurity readiness and response is what KVH will use if we are facing a significant adverse event that severely impacts vine health, under our expanded mandate of managing the industry’s Emergency Response Management framework. You can read about this in detail on page 13, including work that has been underway to prepare for events and response training across the wider industry.
KVH’s new role in this space is backed by industry and facilitates a more co-ordinated and cohesive approach to supporting growers in times of need.
As you’ll see throughout this year’s Annual Update it isn’t only at such times that we are directly undertaking engagement with growers. It’s all the time, and it’s fundamental to what we do. Feeding back information directly to growers at events and workshops has proven yet again over the last year to be a popular and preferred method for us to interact and share everything from details about the work we’re currently doing and what’s coming up; to orchard visits and demonstrations of unusual symptoms, sampling, and monitoring; to
distributing brand new KVH-produced education resources; to latest research findings and how this might help on-orchard practices, as we did alongside Plant & Food Research in northland (page 23).
Collaboration with such research partners, and others, is something covered a lot in this year’s update. The Government Industry Agreement for Biosecurity Readiness and Response (GIA), mentioned by the Board Chair, continues to be key to our preparedness efforts.
The partnership celebrated it’s 10-year anniversary in May 2024, providing us a fitting opportunity to reflect. KVH was the first industry partner to sign up to the GIA Deed, signalling our intent to work constructively with others for the benefit of our growers – and we have proven that intent (and beyond) with a successful decade of advocating for our growers and industry and having direct influence on decisions that are made in relation to prevention and management of pests and diseases that can have a devastating effect on our orchards.
I was in Australia in May at the Plant Health Australia annual meetings with other New Zealand government and industry representatives to learn how the Australians work together under their collaborative partnership to prepare for and respond to biosecurity threats.
There are some similarities between our GIA and the Australian model, but also ways we differ to meet our individual country needs. The insights from this visit will be helpful to shape the future of the New Zealand GIA partnership, which I have full confidence will continue to be successful in delivering better response outcomes for growers.
You can read more about GIA and the operational agreements KVH has been actively involved in on behalf of the kiwifruit and kiwiberry industries on page 15.
Early and proactive involvement in GIA and operational agreement development processes has meant that equitable cost share agreements have been able to be established. Fiscally responsible, and beneficial use of grower levies – that deliver positive and better outcomes for growers – is inherent in our strategy and operations.
This financial year (2023/24) the KVH Board and team of staff have made savings that we are happy to say have left us in a better place than what could have been, without such strong commitment. Overall, KVH was able to save $280k on expenditure last year through careful financial management, while ensuring we still provided a high level of biosecurity support to the kiwifruit industry.
I’m sure you will enjoy the Annual Update and thank you for continued support of KVH, and our activities. A big thanks in particular to all those we regularly work alongside, including our peers at Zespri and NZKGI.
Lastly, to the KVH Board and team, thank you for another successful and productive year of supporting New Zealand kiwifruit growers and industry to protect themselves from biosecurity threats.
回顧過(guò)去的一年，KVH取得了許多成就，尤其是成功舉辦了首屆生物安全研討會(huì)。
該活動(dòng)于2023年8月舉行，旨在展示我們（作為一個(gè)組織和行業(yè)）在生物安全實(shí)踐、應(yīng)對(duì)能力和對(duì)風(fēng)險(xiǎn)變化的適應(yīng)性方面取得了多大的進(jìn)步。我們還希望創(chuàng)造一個(gè)共享生物安全經(jīng)驗(yàn)和知識(shí)的環(huán)境，以便我們所有人都能繼續(xù)提高生物安全標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，確保我們對(duì)病蟲(chóng)害威脅的持續(xù)抵御能力。
正如董事會(huì)主席所指出的那樣，研討會(huì)包括一個(gè)響應(yīng)模擬（詳見(jiàn)第10頁(yè)）。我想強(qiáng)調(diào)的是，應(yīng)對(duì)措施的實(shí)用性——無(wú)論是真實(shí)的還是作為訓(xùn)練活動(dòng)的一部分——因?yàn)檫@是我們?cè)诿媾R重大入侵時(shí)成功實(shí)現(xiàn)應(yīng)對(duì)目標(biāo)所需的準(zhǔn)備程度。
KVH非常重視能力建設(shè)，并通過(guò)我們的KiwiNet冠軍網(wǎng)絡(luò)，確保獼猴桃行業(yè)在需要時(shí)做好應(yīng)對(duì)準(zhǔn)備。這意味著要認(rèn)真對(duì)待培訓(xùn)、練習(xí)、制定計(jì)劃、創(chuàng)建模板、安排物流、擁有合適的工具和軟件等實(shí)際要素。所有這些都使我們能夠從一開(kāi)始就有效地為種植者發(fā)起支持活動(dòng)并使其正確。
如果我們面臨嚴(yán)重影響葡萄藤健康的重大不良事件，根據(jù)我們擴(kuò)大的管理行業(yè)應(yīng)急響應(yīng)管理框架的任務(wù)，KVH將使用相同的生物安全準(zhǔn)備和響應(yīng)模型。您可以在第13頁(yè)詳細(xì)了解這一點(diǎn)，包括為更廣泛行業(yè)的事件和響應(yīng)培訓(xùn)做準(zhǔn)備的工作。
KVH在這一領(lǐng)域的新角色得到了行業(yè)的支持，并有助于在需要時(shí)采取更協(xié)調(diào)一致的方法來(lái)支持種植者。
正如您在今年的年度更新中看到的那樣，我們不僅在這種時(shí)候直接與種植者接觸。這是一直以來(lái)的事情，也是我們工作的基礎(chǔ)。在過(guò)去的一年里，在活動(dòng)和研討會(huì)上直接向種植者反饋信息再次被證明是我們互動(dòng)和分享一切的流行和首選方法，從我們目前正在做的工作的細(xì)節(jié)到即將發(fā)生的事情；果園參觀和異常癥狀演示、采樣和監(jiān)測(cè)；分發(fā)全新的KVH生產(chǎn)的教育資源；最新的研究成果以及這對(duì)果園實(shí)踐的幫助，正如我們與北國(guó)植物與食品研究所共同做的那樣（第23頁(yè)）。
與這些研究伙伴和其他人的合作是今年更新中涉及的很多內(nèi)容。董事會(huì)主席提到的《政府-行業(yè)生物安全準(zhǔn)備和應(yīng)對(duì)協(xié)議》（GIA）仍然是我們準(zhǔn)備工作的關(guān)鍵。
2024年5月，該伙伴關(guān)系慶祝了10周年，為我們提供了一個(gè)反思的合適機(jī)會(huì)。KVH是第一個(gè)簽署GIA契約的行業(yè)合作伙伴，這表明我們有意與他人建設(shè)性地合作，造福我們的種植者——我們已經(jīng)證明了這一意圖（及以后），十年來(lái)我們成功地倡導(dǎo)了我們的種植者和行業(yè)，并對(duì)預(yù)防和管理可能對(duì)我們的果園產(chǎn)生毀滅性影響的病蟲(chóng)害的決策產(chǎn)生了直接影響。
今年5月，我在澳大利亞與其他新西蘭政府和行業(yè)代表一起參加了澳大利亞植物健康年會(huì)，了解澳大利亞人如何在合作伙伴關(guān)系下共同努力，為應(yīng)對(duì)生物安全威脅做好準(zhǔn)備。
我們的GIA和澳大利亞模式之間有一些相似之處，但我們滿(mǎn)足各自國(guó)家需求的方式也有所不同。這次訪問(wèn)的見(jiàn)解將有助于塑造新西蘭GIA伙伴關(guān)系的未來(lái)，我完全相信，該伙伴關(guān)系將繼續(xù)為種植者提供更好的應(yīng)對(duì)結(jié)果。
您可以在第15頁(yè)閱讀更多關(guān)于GIA的信息，以及KVH代表獼猴桃和獼猴桃行業(yè)積極參與的運(yùn)營(yíng)協(xié)議。
及早積極參與GIA和運(yùn)營(yíng)協(xié)議制定過(guò)程意味著能夠建立公平的成本分擔(dān)協(xié)議。對(duì)種植者征稅的財(cái)政負(fù)責(zé)和有益使用——為種植者帶來(lái)積極和更好的結(jié)果——是我們戰(zhàn)略和運(yùn)營(yíng)中固有的。
本財(cái)政年度（2023/24），KVH董事會(huì)和員工團(tuán)隊(duì)節(jié)省了資金，我們很高興地說(shuō)，如果沒(méi)有如此堅(jiān)定的承諾，這些資金使我們處于一個(gè)比本可以更好的地方?？傮w而言，通過(guò)謹(jǐn)慎的財(cái)務(wù)管理，KVH去年能夠節(jié)省28萬(wàn)美元的支出，同時(shí)確保我們?nèi)匀粸楂J猴桃產(chǎn)業(yè)提供高水平的生物安全支持。
我相信您會(huì)喜歡年度更新，并感謝您對(duì)KVH和我們活動(dòng)的持續(xù)支持。特別感謝我們經(jīng)常一起工作的所有人，包括Zespri和NZKGI的同事。
最后，感謝KVH董事會(huì)和團(tuán)隊(duì)，感謝您在支持新西蘭獼猴桃種植者和行業(yè)保護(hù)自己免受生物安全威脅方面又取得了成功和富有成效的一年。