Economic management requires that within the economy resources are allocated to achieve maximum efficiency in an overall attempt to promote standards of living. The objective of this study is to examine efficiency of ...

The effects of a range of farm management strategies on the characteristics of the wool produced by Merino sheep in southern Australia were investigated. The physical and financial responses induced by the different ...

The aim of this study was to assess the economics of controlling gorse in hill country, comparing the use of goat and sheep grazing to chemical control. The New Zealand environment has suited the growth of gorse (an ...

The raising of fat lambs is not restricted to any particular system of farming, but limitations are imposed by many physical factors, the major ones being soil, climate, topography, and transport facilities. The aim of ...

This thesis looks at the level of protection afforded to Japan's agricultural industry (selected commodities), with respect to the 'self-sufficiency in foodstuffs' objective and the reliance on imported feedgrains. Sp ...

This thesis is concerned with efficiency in ocean transportation of sugar. Efficiency in sugar distribution is important in order to help promote and maintain the competitiveness of sucrose sugar in, relation to other ...

Two price quota arrangements have been recommended by economists since 1960 as a second best method of reducing the social cost of protecting Australia's dairy industry. Recent experience, however, with prolonged deliberation ...

The impacts of deregulation on New Zealand's agricultural sector are examined. Economic liberalization of all sectors of economic activity is the hallmark of current economic policy designs in New Zealand. This is in sharp ...

In recent years the agricultural sector in New Zealand has been faced with rising input prices and apart from the commodity price booms in the 1973 and 1974 seasons, prices received have been insufficient to maintain an ...

This report was motivated by the continued unrest and perceived dysfunctional nature of the New Zealand sheep meat industry relative to its ongoing viability and sustainability. Processing overcapacity, amalgamation, ...