In view of the rapid growth of agricultural education and training and the amount of Government funding involved, it is questioned whether the system inherited from the past is equipped to serve the best interests of the ...

The papers presented at the 1985 Conference of the New Zealand Branch of the Australian Agricultural Economics Society reflect the concern with current policy issues, and interest in applied problems facing the agricultural ...

Over a very long period of time, New Zealand's structural policy has devoted a low priority to the export sector. Up till the 1960's, New Zealand seemingly got away with the strategy for the agricultural segment of the ...

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 ...

Over the last twenty years there have been a number of studies carried out of agricultural supply response in New Zealand. The parameters estimated in these studies are an essential ingredient in a wide variety of policy ...