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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 1. 1966.

Great Britain Agriculture Under-Estimated

Great Britain Agriculture Under-Estimated

Although New Zealand is our largest overseas supplier of foodstuffs, it is important that this is put in the right perspective. We grow at home two-thirds of the foodstuffs we eat, apart from those products like bananas which climate prevents us from growing.

People often think that Britain is a purely industrial island. They forget that agriculture is still our largest single industry.

For instance, the value of British farm produce is greater than that of New Zealand and Australia added together.

Rt. Hon. T. F. Peart, British Minister of Agriculture, 23rd September 1965.