Zachary Ngow
About
I was born in Hong Kong to a Malaysian Chinese father and New Zealand Pākeha mother. I moved as a child to Sydney, then to Maketu in the Bay of Plenty. I grew up there, surrounded by kiwifruit, dairy farms and rapidly increasing plantings of avocado, of which included my grandparents'. I would help them with their picking and also work in kiwifruit related jobs during high-school. Then I moved to Kirikiriroa / Hamilton and studied at the University of Waikato. During my bachelor's degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology (minoring in Ecology and Biodiversity), I got a job at AgResearch as a student technician. I learned about weeds in New Zealand and helped with projects about herbicide resistance. I then was kept on as a casual technician, and then did my master's degree - surveying for herbicide resistance in maize crops. Since then, I have kept working as a technician. Most of my work has been on herbicide resistance surveys, but I have also done work on other weeds.