Promise on marketing

Press, 4 December 1985, Page 26

Promise on marketing

PA Wellington The Meat Industry Association has promised there will not be a return to the unsatisfactory system of international marketing that existed before the collapse of the meat schedule in 1982. The chairman, Mr Joe Ryan, said that after the Meat Board withdrew from the national sheepmeats pool at the end of the year the association would ensure there was a system making the transition as smooth as possible. Meanwhile, it had agreed the “unsatisfactory system of international marketing” would not be reintroduced. There would, however, be a group marketing system to

help maximise returns in m every market. . A schedule would con-'A tinue for the remainder of this season and provision s made for premiums to be • paid to farmers for certain-* grades of stock. Mr Ryan said all com-'" panies exporting meat' would have to acknowledge ' their share of responsibility for high-risk markets. ‘ “This cannot be left only £ to a few operators who are perceived to be more able », than others to bear the risk. There will;be no room those who want merely to pluck the eyes out of the market, for that will dd the, producer no good at all,” he] said. J