Farming Structure May Be Altered
<Neio Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, November 19. Farmers must be prepared to alter the structure of farming if it becomes a subsidised industry, Professor K. B. Cumberland said to 700 farmers at Pukekohe last evening.
Professor Cumberland, head of the geography department at Auckland University, said serious thought must be given to subsidising the agricultural industry if its situation did not improve. This would mean a redistribution of the national income to support the country’s main producers. But, he said, subsidy would also bring to the farmer added responsibility and obli-i
gations. The farmer could not continue comfortably producing whatever he wished to produce. Production would have to turn to the produce most suited to export. “This would possibly mean that uneconomic small units would have to go,” Professor Cumberland said. Major changes were needed in New Zealand agriculture and he forecast larger farms, more company farms, and greater urban investment. )
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31841, 20 November 1968, Page 32
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