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Fresh vegetable retailing in New Zealand : an economic survey
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1968)
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 ...
Distribution costs and efficiency for fresh fruit and vegetables
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1971)
This study concerns the economics of a particular section of the food distribution industry in New Zealand, namely that part responsible for distributing fresh fruit and vegetables. Distribution costs are measured as the ...
A regional analysis of future sheep production in New Zealand; an application of spatial linear programming
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1970)
The study of supply has always interested agricultural economists. A complete understanding of the supply behaviour of farmers under different price situations is the basis of most teaching in agricultural economics and a ...
Some aspects of the economics of nitrogen storage farming in New Zealand
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1972-05)
In this paper we are concerned with some economic aspects of the use of artificial nitrogen fertilisers in New Zealand agriculture. With the prospect of much cheaper nitrogen fertiliser in the future (and possibly more ...
Economic problems of New Zealand agriculture
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1968-04)
Before devaluation in November 1967, New Zealand faced the most marked deflationary pressure on the economy since the 1930’s. Since 1964, economic policies had emphasised the need for growth, based on an expanding flow ...
New Zealand agriculture and oil price increases
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1979)
This paper is based on the assumptions that world oil
resources are finite and that world oil production will peak sometime
in the 1980s or 1990s (Hughes & Mesarovic 1978 : 139).
Such a scenario is now widely accepted ...
Trends in the terms of exchange and productivity in the New Zealand dairy industry
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1970-06)
This paper sets out the available information on price trends facing the dairy industry since 1948/49, and some estimates of productivity increases over the same period. The general aim of the paper is to ascertain how the ...
Proceedings of a New Zealand seminar on project evaluation in agriculture and related fields
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1968)
The evaluation of projects which demand capital strikes at the heart of the economic problem - that is - the making of decisions about the allocation of scarce resources amongst competing ends. In a perfectly competitive ...
The agricultural sector in New Zealand : a joint farm-industrial perspective
(Agricultural Economics Research Unit, Lincoln College., 1984-10)
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 ...
Papers presented at the New Zealand Branch Australian Agricultural Economics Society Conference, Blenheim, June 1986
(Lincoln College. Agricultural and Economics Research Unit., 1986-12)
The theme for the 1986 Conference of the New
Zealand Branch of the Australian Agricultural Economics
Society was Economic Liberalisation in Agriculture:
An International Comparison. The organising committee
adopted ...