BRITISH POULTRY IMPORTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18710, 16 May 1924, Page 12

BRITISH POULTRY IMPORTS.

FIGURES FOR 1922.

During 1922 the poultry produce imported into the United Kingdom (mainly Great Britain) from countries abroad, exclusive of Ireland, exceeded £15,000,000 in value; and the Irish exports, nearly all of which entered Britain, approximated, to a value of £11,000,000 in 1921. These are big figures, yet it is to be noted.that the quantities of eggs and poultry imported fall' consideraby short of pre-war dimensions. The warning given by the Departmental Committee on Distribution and Prices of Agricultural Produce is to the effect that producers in 'those Continental countries which, owing to internal conditions, have temporarily ceased to ex-'' port poultry produce to these shores will'* sooner or later seek to re-enter the British market." *

On the other hand, the estimated \-aiue of the production of eggs and poultry on the argicultural holdings of Great Britain in 1922 is given as £16,000,000. This estimate does not include the production of fowls kept by cottages and private residents, and these have been assumed to be ab'out one-third as manv as tho birds kept on agricultural holdings.