In recent years, some 12,000 acres in New Zealand has been used for green pea production for processing. The greater proportion of this land is in Hawkes Bay, but commercial crops are also grown in Nelson, Marlborough, ...

The principal objective of the 1980 survey was to determine the average net farm income received by town milk producers in New Zealand. Information produced by the survey is used for a variety of purposes. It assists ...

A good deal of interest has been shown in the marketing of vegetables over recent years particularly with reference to marketing margins. This survey is a study of such margins for different groups of retailers for two ...

The 1979 Budget statement reasserted the Government’s commitment to full employment as a policy objective but considered that inflation and the balance of payments limited the scope of monetary and fiscal measures to ...

The New Zealand meat industry has been undergoing significant changes during the past decade. These changes have prompted the carrying out of research on the New Zealand meat industry and the likely development of new ...

Although in the past pig production has been an important export industry, today it is only concerned with the domestic market. It is an industry which has not benefitted from direct government subvention, as has been ...

Maize is used primarily for domestic requirements in compound stock food, starch, distilling, breakfast foods, with limited amounts exported. A small area of maize is used as a fodder crop (3813 ha in 1982) for cattle ...

New Zealand stone fruit constitutes a multi-million dollar industry. Possibly because the industry exports very little in either value or quantity terms little research work has been completed in this industry. Little is ...

This report delineates a range of topics that could be included in MAF social research using mainly the suggestions available in the current sociology literature. Suggestions from five MAF personnel were used to supplement ...

It is only recently that the need for New Zealand to find and develop new food markets has become apparent. Up till then, her established markets, mainly the United Kingdom, have been able to absorb all the food products ...