Optimism Over Livestock Rise
(New Zealand Press WELLINGTON, February 28. Indications were that the increase in livestock numbers this year could well exceed 5 per cent as against an average annual target of 3.5 per cent, the Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake) said tonight.
He said that to claim the targets set by the Agricultural Development Conference were not being reached was both “premature and uninformed.”
Last week, the chairman of the Farm Improvement Club Federation, Mr A. G. Wood, was reported as saying that farm production was lagging seriously behind the targets set, specifying the livestock increases.
Mr Holyoake said it had been appreciated all along that it would take time for the annual increase to reach
3.5 per cent. This figure had been set as an annual average increase from the 196263 year tn 1972-73. It was recognised that, at the beginning of a development programme, particularly in sheep farming, the farmer had first to make provision for feeding the extra stock and keeping stock numbers in line with feed availability, Mr Holyoake said. If the level of stock numbers projected for 1966 was attained it would mean a total increase since 1962-63 of 12.7 per cent.
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Press, Issue 30997, 1 March 1966, Page 3
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