POTATOES FOR THE
ARGENTINE
Victoria Unable to Export
The Victorian Government has been using every effort to establish the export of potatoes to the Argentine without success. Replying to criticism at the annual meeting of the Koroit Agrlcultuial Society, the Minister of Agriculture, Air. Hogam said that he had done his best without avail. There were no steamers trading between Victoria and the Argentine, and the potatoes would have to be sent to New Zealand and there transhipped, if space could be secured. The cost of doing that was prohibitive. To charter a vessel to take 6000 tons of potatoes direct from .Melbourne to Buenos Aires would cost £6 a ton freight. In addition 10 per cent, of Victorian potatoes were affected with rhizoetonia, a fungus disease, ami would not be allowed to land m the Argentine. Arrangements were being made, however, for shipments of potatoes to Java.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 291, 4 September 1937, Page 4
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