GERMAN DAIRYING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 78, 2 April 1938, Page 13

GERMAN DAIRYING

CONTROL OF INDUSTRY I HIGHER BUTTER PRODUCTION i Since the trade and payments agrecI ment between Germany and New Zea . land became operative in October ox i last year, German imports of New I Zealand butter have totalled 143 U tons I valued at approximately £160,01L - sterling. Attention is drawn to these » figures in the latest news bulletin o. i the Department of Industries and I Commerce, which states that Germany ; ranks second after the United State., ' of America as a producing and cor.- ■ suming country for milk and milk pro- ■ ducts. I United Slates’ production of butter ; in 1936, it is stated, totalled 1,020,1’00 tons, as against Germany’s 460,000 Lons. Cheese produced in the United ! States during the same year totallcu 266,000 tons, as against Germany’s , 135,000 tons, and preserved muk, 1,105,000 tons, against 72,000 tons. Notwithstanding her high produc-; Jon, Germany also ranks as tne sec- 1 ond largest in 4-r of butter and cheese, pride • p 1 ce being taken by Great Britain, w i h the high annual per capital coil-uh jtion of 17.41 b. of butter and 5.31 b. of cheese, and a I growing population, at. present in exI cess of 67,000,000, the German author! Ities, in lace of a shortage of funds, have had to limit imports. As an alternative, consid- rabie attention has

been paid to the rationalisation of local industry with a view to organisation on the most cllicient basis for production and distribution. Under this control scheme, the milk yield in Germany was increased from 23,500 million kilograms in 1932 to only 23,800 million kilograms in 1936. Butter production increased during the 1 same period, however, from 415,000 tons in 1932 to 460,000 tons in 1936, and rennet cheese production from 118,000 tons to 135,000 tons. The pro- i duet ion of other milk products also increased during the same four years. Of far greater interest to exporting countries, however, is the fact that

- German butter consumption Increased - by 50,000 tons (luring the same four ■! years. The quantity of butter im- ( ported also increased from 70,000 tons C|in 1932 to 75,000 tons in 1936. Th? >. quantity of cheese consumed, on the > other hand, was 1000 tons lower, the . 1 quantity imported showing reduction d of 18,000 tons. )| The rise of 10 per cent, in German , i consumption of butter is in conformity i with increases in other countries dur- • ing the past few years, but the buile- ■ tin points out that there has been a concurrent decline in the production Oi ; margarine. Whether under the present four-year plant of economic sell-

J sufficiency, Germany will endeavour toj I restrict her imports remains to bv; seen. During the first seven months; J of last year German imports of but-J >| ter totalled 43,761 tons, and cheesei 'j 18,478 tons,