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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This report is the seventh in an annual series of economic surveys of New Zealand town milk supply farms. These surveys have been undertaken by the Agricultural Economics Research Unit at Lincoln College on hehalf of the ...

This directory, published by the Centre for Resource Management, is a comprehensive list of professional and technical staff engaged in research, extension, development and administration in the hill and high country of ...

The garden, named after the founding Director of the Tussock Grasslands and Mountain Lands Institute, is intended to be educational. From the early 1970s, a small garden plot provided a touch of character to the original ...