Budget will hurt, farmers warned
PA Wellington Farmers can expect more cuts in agriculture subsidies, the Under-Secretary for Agriculture, Mr W. R. Austin, indicated yesterday. There would be “a bit of pain” for farmers in this year’s Budget, he told the Pork Industry Conference in Wellington. “My Government has a commitment to carve into farm subsidies and where Eossible to eliminate them y 1985.
“I do not envisage farmers marching to Parliament after the Budget and applauding. There is going to be a bit of pain,” he said. Mr Austin’s warning comes only days after the Minister of Agriculture, Mr Maclntyre, told dairy farmers that there would be more action on agricultural subsidies. Mr Austin told the conference that under the terms of the closer economic relations with Australia, New Zealand had to try to reduce its agriculture subsidies. Now that the Government was reducing inflation, it would cut back subsidies too, he said.
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Press, 5 July 1983, Page 3
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