GROWING OF VEGETABLES
NEED FOR ORGANISATION The complete organisation of the vegetable industry, with a system of licensing or registration of growers, and planned production schedules to eliminate, as far as possible, shortages and gluts, was recommended to the Vegetable Committee of the Christchurch'City Council by representatives of the Canterbury Fruit Buyers' Association. Mr E. Guthrie, president of the association, • said that assistance to the grower was one of the chief requirements in securing an adequate supply of vegetables at reasonable prices. The grower was having to face difficulties such as the shortage of manures and of some kinds of seeds. Leek seed, for instance, had come from enemyoccupied territories. , The price for such seed was high, little seed would be planted, and consequently the supplies of leeks in future would be small. The attention of the Internal Marketing Department had been drawn to these problems last year, when it was predicted that unless the industry was organised there would be a shortage of vegetables this winter. That shortage was already being felt in the North Island.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24944, 17 June 1942, Page 4
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177GROWING OF VEGETABLES Otago Daily Times, Issue 24944, 17 June 1942, Page 4
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