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Abstract
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For the last sixty years, farm produce has contributed over 90% of the value of exports from New Zealand; farming has indeed been the “backbone” of the country and the basis of our prosperity. New Zealand farmers have retained “their preeminence in the world for per capita productivity and efficiency”. However, the National Development Conference which met last year came to the conclusion that increase of farm exports could not of itself provide adequate foreign exchange to support a desirable rate of increase in per capita income for an expanding population. It emphasized that sectors such as forestry, fisheries, manufacturing and tourism must make a greater contribution than in the past and concentrate on export earnings. As a token of possibilities, forest and manufactured products have increased from 5.4% of exports in 1966 to 10.6% in the year ending September, 1969. It is there-fore appropriate that at this time we should discuss the future of animal production in New Zealand.