APPENDIX

MAXIMUM BENCHMARKS FOR HORTICULTURAL AND LIVESTOCK INVESTIGATIONS

Horticultural Crop: Trial area:
Herbs 0.1 hectare
Essential oils 1.0 hectare
Bulbs 0.1 hectare
Flowers 0.1 hectare
Avocados 0.5 hectare
Cherries 0.5 hectare
Tree fruits (stone and pip) 0.5 hectare
Nashi 0.5 hectare
Grapes 0.5 hectare
Sub-tropicals (kiwifruit/tamarillo) 0.4 hectare
Fuelwood 0.5 hectare
Vegetables - field 0.2-0.4 hectare
Nuts 1.0 hectare
Berries 0.2 hectare
All crops - glasshouse, tunnel house, etc 100 sq metres

Livestock : Technical feasibility:

Involves investigating species of breeds that are new to New Zealand or a region:

Maternal Traits and Reproductive Performance Number of Animals
As a pure species or breed evaluation 50-200
As a crossbreeding programme 2-3 sires
As semen (straws) 1.5 per animal

Productive Traits (Growth, milk, fibre, pelts)
As a pure species or breed evaluation 20-30
As a crossbreeding programme 2-3
As semen 1.5

Embryo Transfer/Semen Collection 10-20
Embryo transfer evaluation 10-20
Semen collection, mating techniques 10-20

Commercial Feasibility:

Involves testing through the processing and manufacturing stages, through to market feasibility studies.

Product Number of Animals
Carcass evaluation 20
Pelt evaluation 30
Milk production: 20-30 litres

• Cows 10
• Water buffalo 15
• Sheep 50-75
• Goats 30

Fibre: Craft market 20-30 kg

• Sheep 6
• Alpaca 10
• Goats: Mohair 12
• Goats: Cashmere 25
• Rabbits: Angora 25

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT INVESTIGATION GRANT : LETTER OF INTENT FORM

The purpose of a letter of intent is to allow a grant applicant sufficient time to gather the necessary information to complete their application.

Costs incurred prior to the date on which this letter is received by the Business Development Board will be considered as retrospective, ie, these costs will not be able to be considered for the grant application.

Lodging a letter of intent is no guarantee that the costs incurred from the date the letter is received will be approved.

The only basis on which claims can be paid out are:

a on matching original receipts to original invoices or on an accountant’s certification of costs paid; this must be from an independent account in public practice and must match expenditure to the approved costs; and

b if the prescribed standard claims and report forms have been used by the claimant.

A letter of intent is valid for 90 days from the date it is received by the Business Development Board. No extensions can be made to this validity period.

Two specific information requests are made in this form - one relates to the applicant’s gender and the other to their ethnicity. The only reason for seeking this information is to, firstly, monitor the growing role of women in business and, secondly, to monitor assistance to Maori - given the mainstreaming of Mana funding.

1 Full Name of Applicant _____

2 Trading Name (if different from above): _____

3 Postal Address: _____

4 Telephone: Fax:

5 What is the project to be investigated and over what time-frame? _____