Economic management requires that within the economy resources are allocated to achieve maximum efficiency in an overall attempt to promote standards of living. The objective of this study is to examine efficiency of ...

This thesis analyses the factor costs of killing and processing sheep and lambs from works gate to ex-works in a New Zealand processing company. It examines the effect of throughput numbers on these factor costs using ...

In the negotiations connected with Britain' s entry into the E. E. C., New Zealand possesses very little true bargaining power. The only advantage we can use is to be better informed than the other side about the structure ...

New Zealand stone fruit constitutes a multi-million dollar industry. Possibly because the industry exports very little in either value or quantity terms little work has been completed in this industry. Little is known, ...

Marketing charges for lamb, mutton and beef from farm gate up to f. o. b. (free on board) are identified for each of the six years ending 30th September 1971 to 30th September 1976. Trends in unit charges are presented ...

This Report is the fifth in an annual series of economic surveys of New Zealand town milk supply farms. These surveys have been undertaken by the Agricultural Economics Research Unit at Lincoln College on behalf of the ...

Over the past few years New Zealand agricultural producers and policy makers have been increasingly alarmed at large increases in marketing costs of agricultural products, particularly of those products destined for ...

The possibility of growing sugar beet Beta vulgaris as an energy crop has received a great deal of attention in New Zealand. This paper concentrates on two aspects of a sugar beet industry. The net foreign earnings of ...

The Pegasus Bay rig fishery is a small but complex set net fishery. It is one of the four main, fisheries exploiting the South Island east coast rig stock. The goal of this study is to determine how the fishery could be ...

This report is the eleventh in an annual series of economic surveys of New Zealand town milk supply farms. These surveys have been undertaken by the Agricultural Economics Research Unit at Lincoln College on behalf of ...