Browning Steffan: Debate on Prime Minister’s StatementText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBrowning Steffan: Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement[Sitting date: 10 February 2016. Volume:711;Page:8872. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]STEFFAN BROWNING (Green): Kia ora Mr Assistant Speaker. The Prime Minister failed us yesterday. There was no organic target. There was no target for a bright economic and clean green future. Instead the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement was his mantra.It was just at the end of last year that we did the first reading of one of the bills that is one of the ones listed as needing to be changed to suit the TPP and I said then that it was a TPP bill. That is the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Amendment Bill. That was when I pointed out that this Government has allowed in so many new pesticides in its term compared with the Government ahead of it. Under the previous Government 687 chemicals actually went out and 906 new ones came in. Under this Government 239 were out but there are 1100 new ones.But what the Government is doing under the TPP is moving down to make more pesticides available into New Zealand and with less transparency—more pesticides and less transparency and we are awash with pesticides in this country already. What for? Why are we doing this? We are extending the patent time—that is the intention that is in front of the Primary Production Committee from tomorrow on. The intention is to increase the patent time from 5 to 8 years. It rings a bell like some of the other TPP bills with the patents rights and intellectual property rights. It is for the USA and other countries’ big pesticide industry giants and those that are stuck in unsustainable production methods.But there is an alternative and it is around organics. The world is clamouring for it. Yesterday the Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy was extolling the US his No. 1 TPP market. He did not mention organics. Organics has been growing there at double-digit figures for more than 10 years and in dairy there is something more like a 20 percent demand. What is this Government doing around promotion of organics and moving to a sustainable economic future by going down towards something that people actually want something that the markets actually want?Fonterra is not keeping up with it either. For the third time in less than a year it is adjusting prices for an organic premium because it has been bleeding some of the organic farmers because it did not look after them. There are not enough organic farmers in this country for the demand. Those conventional ones who are right up against the wall at the moment need the Minister Nathan Guy to get in there and support them in transitioning to organics.Fonterra is said to be lifting its price on a floating scheme balancing up against the market up to something like $8 a kilo of milk solids by hang; $4.15 for its other farmers. Its price for organic whole milk powder out there at the moment if it can supply it is $14000 per tonne. It is 4.5 times—450 percent—more than conventional rubbish with pesticide residues and all.There is a way to go. There is a way to actually improve in this country and it is about taking a stance around organics moving towards organics and progressing that very fast. Fonterra is even using a plant in Australia to make some organic baby milk powder and it is not even their producers over there. They do not have any organic ones; they have got to get it off others. We have opportunity here. We must take it.Just a last point: another thing that stood out for me with the TPP was the International Union for New Plant Varieties 91 which is a plant-patenting type-thing. Who is that for? It is for Agria the Chinese-owned PGG Wrightson Seeds and their unsustainable products like herbicide-tolerant swedes which kill cows. We will be working on this bill—