A Northland iwi’s commercial arm has been given a $1.74 million government loan to develop an avocado orchard on 20 hectares of its land south of Dargaville.
Kaipara iwi Te Uri o Hau has been given funding through its commercial arm Renaissance Group Ltd from $24m of investment from the Regional Strategic Partnership Fund (RSPF) into 10 diverse projects across the country.
The RSPF loan is to develop a 20-hectare haas avocado orchard near Te Kōpuru, south of Dargaville. It’s the only Northland project to benefit from this latest round of RSPF funding.
The Renaissance Group is the commercial arm of Te Uri o Hau Settlement Trust, so the project itself will be run through this commercial entity.
The trust was approached for comment and to find out more details of the orchard plan, but had not responded.