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Plant Importation
Plant & Food Research offers post-entry quarantine services for the importation of plant material into New Zealand on behalf of clients.
We operate a range of MAF-approved plant quarantine facilities across New Zealand:
- Level 1
- Palmerston North
- Lincoln
- Level 2
- Hawke’s Bay
- Palmerston North
- Lincoln
- Level 3
- Palmerston North
- Auckland
- Diagnostic laboratory
- Palmerston North.
Plant & Food Research provides services for the importation of large plants, seedlings, budwood, tissue culture, ornamentals, leaves and fruits.
Our diagnostics laboratory is approved by MAF Biosecurity New Zealand to conduct a range of pre-determined tests for plants in quarantine, including herbaceous and woody plant indexing, and specific molecular tests for plant viruses.