Rice is the most important basic staple food for about one-half of the world's population and provides over 20 percent of the global calorie intake (FA0,2000). As a result of increases in population and economic growth, ...

The AERU published its first report on smallholdings in Canterbury in 1993. The present report extends that research by using a random sample survey and thereby updates our understanding of this very important phenomenon. ...

The objective of this project is to provide a comparison of financial performance for owner operated dairy farms in Canterbury, Southland, and the West Coast.

Concern has been expressed within primary industries that the Commodity Levies Act 1990 does not cater for long term research due to the restrictions on 'commercial activities' in particular, and the six year term of the ...

What is our dairy pasture really worth? Or, more importantly, what are we prepared to pay for the land that it grows on? Through this report, seven farm performance parameters have been compared with the value offarm ...

Irrigation and water storage has long been touted as a potential for improvements in productivity in dryland East Coast areas. Reports date back to the 1880's discussing the benefits water would bring to farmlands. Currently ...

Historically the New Zealand Dairy Industry has paid seasonal milk producing farmers the same price for milk irrespective of the month in which it was produced. Over the last ten years a number of attempts have been made ...

The two big meat co-operatives, PPCS and Alliance, are currently exploring closer working relationships. This includes possible amalgamation. It indicates how tough things have become in the sheep industry. This report ...

Smallholder production is the main mode of agricultural production in Tonga. This report assesses the current practices with consideration to the farmers' attitudes, their traditional social institutions, cultural values ...

A survey of 59 key informants in biotechnology, agriculture, forestry, and seafood was conducted in 2005 to estimate the economic contribution of biotechnology to the primary sector in New Zealand.