OPINION: The country’s dairy farmers will now also have a hand in providing free lunch for schools.
The Government’s new school lunch programme unveiled last week will cost $3 a lunch (down from $8) and save $130 million.
The Government had been working with local businesses, including Fonterra, to “transform” the school lunch programme, in a bid to save money.
Associate Education Minister David Seymour says the Government had “embraced commercial expertise, used government buying power, and generated supply chain efficiencies to realise over $130m of annual cost savings”.
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