The development and continued viability of the New Zealand economy is based on the competitiveness of the agricultural sector and the opportunities for sales of its output on the main world markets for food. This ...

In New Zealand's agricultural sector, the dominant position of pastoral enterprises has resulted in relatively little importance being attached to the production of arable crops. At times of strong demand and remunerative ...

Two issues which have attracted the attention of economists and policymakers in New Zealand in recent years are a decline in the size of the farming sub sector relative to the New Zealand economy, and slow rates of ...

Farming is an industry which depends on the work, decisions and competence of a large number of individual farmers, each of them running their own farm business. These business units vary widely in the resources at their ...

Some of the limelight has shifted in the past decade from the pastoral industry to the horticultural industry, but a substantial contribution to overseas earnings is still made by the pastoral sector. Profitability, from ...

The first paper reviews the trade and economic relations between New Zealand and Japan. R.M. Miller gives a detailed description of the importance of Japan to New Zealand both as an export market and as a supplier of ...

This report aims to provide the New Zealand and more specifically the Christchurch eating out industry with a base set of information to plan and co-ordinate its marketing activity over the next decade. The report describes ...