Kim Chance

The State Government has launched a new program to help Western Australian shoppers identify and purchase locally produced food.

Agriculture and food minister Kim Chance will travel to the Middle East this weekend to discuss trade and investment opportunities for Western Australian agriculture and food.

Western Australian canola growers are reaping early benefits of the Victorian and New South Wales Governments' decision to lift their moratorium on the commercial production of genetically modified crops, WA agriculture and food minister Kim Chance said.

Labor governments in NSW and Victoria announced today plans to lift their moratoria on genetically modified canola production, but their stance has not softened the opposition of Western Australian agriculture minister Kim Chance to GM crops.

Food giant Goodman Fielder has urged all state governments to continue their moratoria on genetically modified food crops, providing support for agriculture minister Kim Chance's decision to continue a moratorium.

Forestry Minister Kim Chance has announced he will submit recommendations from a statutory review of the Forest Products Act that would give the Forest Products Commission greater powers to Parliament "in due course".

The State Government has allocated an additional $4 million for the second stage of development at the Avon Industrial Park, located in the Shire of Northam, with new lots to be available by early 2008.

Western Australia's horse industries will be back to business as usual from 4pm today, after WA Agriculture and Food Minister Kim Chance announced no strains of equine influenza had been detected in the state.

Manjimup woodworking company Appadene Forest Products has received $80,000 of a $104,000 grant from the State Government's Furniture and Fine Wood Industries Program, enabling it to develop an additional workshop, Forestry Minister Kim Chance has announce