Dairy gifts worry N.Z.
NZPA staff correspondent Washington
The United States has announced two more gifts of surplus dairy products to foreign countries, a practice increasingly concerning the New Zealand dairy industry, worried by the threat of disruption to commercial markets.
The gifts are the thirteenth and fourteenth announced this year. They total more than 7000 tonnes, and will go to Chile and the Philippines. Chile gets 6700 tonnes of non-fat dry milk and 355 tonnes of butter oil. This will go to its Ministry of Health for distribution to 1.2 million children under the age of six who are suffering from malnutrition or exposed to it. The Philippines gets 13 tonnes of non-fat dry milk for malnourished children.
The agriculture committee of the House of Representatives has asked President Reagan to designate China as eligible to buy surplus dairy products oh concessional terms under the “Food For Peace” programme. The committee’s chairman, Mr Kika de la Garza, said the committee had been told that China, a substantial buyer of American crops on normal commercial terms, was interested in buying American dairy products under the subsidised programme.
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Press, 30 June 1983, Page 3
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