Lucerne sales growth
Exports of lucerne by U.E.B.’s subsidiary, U.E.B. Marlborough Protein, Ltd, will earn more than $500,000 in overseas exchange this year. The company expects to have exported more than 10,000 tons of bulk pelleted; lucerne to markets in South-; East Asia by the end May,' which is about two-thirds of! the season’s output of the; Blenheim plant.
U.E.B. has called tenders for the construction of a $500,000 lucerne processing plant at Onga Onga, Hawke’s Bay.
the factory will have a production capacity of about 8000 tons of lucerne pellets in its first season and is expected to be working in time for the start of the next harvesting season in September.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33191, 3 April 1973, Page 18
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