The international sugar situation and New Zealand’s sugar policy
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1964
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Abstract
In deciding whether or not there should be established a
sugar beet industry in New Zealand, there are many considerations
which policy makers need to bear in mind, but there are two major
questions which initially must be answered.
The first question is "what is the return to the nation on
the capital invested in growing and processing sugar beet by
comparison with the return to be earned from the same resources
used to increase traditional exports for the import of sugar from
abroad?"
Such an assessment depends not only on the farm management
and economic aspects of a sugar beet industry in New Zealand but
it also depends on the assumptions which are used as to the price
which will have to be paid for imported sugar over the next decade
or so and this, then, is the second question which must be
answered, what is the likely future course of world sugar
prices?