PIG INDUSTRY

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3850, 5 October 1932, Page 5

PIG INDUSTRY

REPORT BY COMMITTEE EFFORTS TO IMPROVE IT (Pen Pres s Association) Wellington. October 4. Tfie Pig Industry Advisory Committee', appointed by the Government, in June this year Juts made reconuniendation s lo the effect that to industry can he place,) in , ai b<i ter position! both as regards lb-' <l u:1 IL lity of pigs produced and their quality from a marketing standpoint by encouraging the breeding of t-ne type required by the export market, blit a compulsory standardised, grading should be established under Government control. It is agreed, that pigs acceptable to local and English markets can be produced on waste milk by-products, but the industry can b e placed in a more profitable, position by removal of tariffs on. some til the necessary imported supplementary food stuffs "Phe commit,to®) records its appreciation. of tho wool i’ll dried interest and support accorded to its deliberations by tire Dcpartmicnts of Agriculture and Soienti lie and Industrial Research, whose enthusiasm together with the. practical and ready assistance. offered by the Meat Board, give promise, of the accomplishment of much valuable work during tlte next few mcmlths.