GROW MORE COTTON
APPEAL IN QUEENSLAND CHANGE-OVER FROM SUGAR An appeal lias been made to the sugar farmers of the Burdekin River District of Queensland to changc over from sugar to cotton production to meet Australia's needs in raw cotton. Sugar farmers from the Burdekin district have informed the State Minister for Agriculture, Mr F. W. Buleock, that they could grow the
whole of Australia's requirements of 80,000 bales of raw cotton a year if they cculd be assured of a payable price and a guarantee that the industry would be continued for a given period after the war. It was claimed that the present prise of*b}4d a lb for cotton is not high" enough to induce the change. The Burdekin is the only big irrigation district in- Queensland where cotton could be planted with the assurance of satisfactory crops. Cotton c'oiiild be grown from May until December, whereas in the present cotton-growing areas, planting is possible only from September to December.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 73, 3 July 1942, Page 8
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162GROW MORE COTTON Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 73, 3 July 1942, Page 8
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