Indicative planning for the poultry industry in New Zealand

Abstract

From time to time the Agricultural Economics Research Unit proposes to publish discussion papers which, as their title suggests, aim at stimulating interest and discussion on specific topics in agricultural economics. This, the first of these discussion papers, was given as an address to the Lincoln College Poultry Farmers' Refresher Course. In the paper Dr Ward presents some tentative projections for the poultry industry for 1973, and indicates what economic research is required to improve this type of forecasting which is essential to planning the orderly development of the industry.