Estimates of farm income and productivity in New Zealand 1921-65
Date
1967
Type
Monograph
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Abstract
The purpose of this bulletin is to bring together the
complete set of data on income and productivity for the New
Zealand agricultural sector for the period 1921 - 1965. It
is anticipated that the resulting tables will be of interest
to those concerned with policy-making and those who wish to
examine past trends for their own purposes. In this introduction
we outline the order in which the material appears,
the conceptual viewpoint taken of the agricultural sector,
and the definition of terms. In the second section, we
set out a brief discussion, with the relevant graphs, of
some of the main trends which the data show. Since further
analysis of the data is obviously desirable, we conclude
these introductory sections with a bibliography of papers
so far prepared in this department on the general theme of
agricultural productivity.