‘Exceptional’ trial crop
PA Ashburton This year’s sugar beet trial crop in the Ashburton district of Winchmore has yielded exceptionally well,” according to the chairman of the Canterbury Sugar Development Company, Ltd, (Mr Fi Newton). The crop has yielded 60 tonnes of beet per hectare, compared with a world average yield of about 40 tonnes, Mr Newton said. It has provided a sucrose yield in the range of 16, to 16.5 per cent. Mr Newton said machinery requirements for sugar beet processing had now been assessed.
Options that the company had made available to the Government contained catalogues of plant and machinery, 80 per cent of which could be made in New Zeaand with the help of New Zealand capital.
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Press, 31 May 1978, Page 17
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