THE WORLD’S MEAT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 246, 12 July 1921, Page 6

THE WORLD’S MEAT

NEW ZEALAND’S WONDERFUL POSITION PROVIDED 70 PER CENT. OF MUTTON AND LAMB IN 1915 The United States Bureau of Crop Estimates has been diverging from the study of crops to say something about the ‘world’s supply of meat. This is particularly interesting to New Zealand, as tho figures show the large share provided by this country-. As far as mutton and lamb were concerned, New Zealand was pre-eminent in 1915 as tho world’s supplier. Here is an extract from the article referred to: — "Argentine’s share of the world’s export meat trade, which for many years has been next below that of the United States, declined from 28 per cent, in 1913 to 25.2 per cent, in 1915, but rose to 28.5 per cont. in 1917, and rapidly to 31.3 per cent, in 1918. Beginning with 1911, that country has supplied more than one-half of the world’s beef export, except in 191 G and 1917, when it was not convenient to do so. Argentina s beef fraction for 1913 was 55.3, for 1916 it was 46.8. and for 1918 it was 51.6. "Australia has long supplied .about one-tenth to. one-fifth of the world’s beef exports' but tho war caused the fraction to fall below ono-tenth, and by 1918 to 8.4 per cent. "New Zealand supplied 44 per cent, of the world’s export mutton and lamb in 1913, and increased the fraction fo 70 per cent in 1915, but there was a recession to the former 44 per cent, in 1918. Argentina has usually exceeded Australia as a source of mutton and lamb supply, and diet so during the war, in the lost year of Which it was providing 35 per cent, of tho world’s total, while Australia provided 19 per cent. "In the international pork supply the United states has left but little room for any other country. Indeed, Canada is the only country that has a share large enough to be seen. It was 3 per cent, of the world’s total in 1913, and the fraction gained year by year to 13 per cent, in 1918. "Tho rise of Brazil, China, and British South Africa into some prominence as meat-exporting countries during the was. i s notable, especially Brazil. From a nominal export of 1,790,000 pounds of meat from Brazil in 1913 and 191+ the quantity jumped io 94,000,000 pounds in 1916, to 230,000.000 pounds in 1917, and to "51.000,000 pounds in 1919, of which 146 000 000 pounds was beef, 46,000.000 pounds pork, and 59,000,000 pounds nnidentified meat. "China was exporting from 50,000,000 to 65,000,000 pounds of beef. and pork from 1912 to 1915. The quantity became 101,000,000 pounds in 1917 and rose to 1+8,000,000 pounds in 1919. From British South Africa meat exporta. mostly beef, increased from about 500,000 pounds at tho time the war began io 18,000,000 pounds by 1916 and to 46,.500,000 pounds bv 1919. , _ , ‘“Not. until IM9 did beef exceed pork in tho world’s exports. From the year before the war began to 1918, tho last year of tho war beef, as a fraction of total meat exports for the world, grew from 42.7 to 46.1 per cent., pork grew from 33.7 to 3&5 per cent., and mutton host in their favour, with a decline from 13.6 to 5.6 per cent.”