Farmers’ leader to make study visit to Britain

Press, 22 August 1977, Page 2

Farmers’ leader to make study visit to Britain

The chairman of the Dominion agriculture section of ; Federated Farmers, Mr A. L. Mulholland, of Darfield, will; leave Christchurch today to visit Britain under a British Government travel grant. In the course of visits to a number of farms and agricultural research establishments, Mr Mulholland will be looking at the British way of doing things. He had selected three particular areas for study, he said. At the National Inatitue of Agricultural Botany at Cambridge, he would see the latest developments in plant breeding; at the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering at Silsoe, in Bedfordshire, his interest, as a member of the manage-

•ment committee of the New;t 11 Zealand Agricultural Engin-li . eering Institute, would be in': I the progress in tractor 4 > safety and particularly in 'p i tractor-noise levels; and he i would also view the milling [t >,and baking industries in the! I -'light of problems in New!; ■ Zealand with quality testing, t I Meat marketing was also!: Jon his programme. ;t Mr Mulholland will take Is - the opportunity to promote!; ? the sale of New Zealand i ■! grass and clover seeds and) .■'will be looking at the possi-| e j bilities for trade in products i t’of New Zealand’s arable! • cropping industry, such as -j tomatoes. i, He will also be looking; .'into whether there might be; ■ a demand in Britain for mal-l

ting barley, as he has a feel-1 ing that barley from the I southern pan of the South; Island could be a desirable’ product in Britain. Mr Mulholland may go to' the headquarters of the! European Economic Community in Brussels, and in that event will confer with the commission on seeds on the entry of New Zealand: I seeds and increasing the! ’number of varieties on the (common catalogue of varieties to facilitate their entry. |ln Paris, he may also talk lon seeds with the Organisa-', 'tion for Economic Co-oper-ation and Development. I Mr Mulholland, who will Ibe accompanied by his wife, will be away from New Zealand for about six weeks.