Argentina To Boost Dairy Production

Chronicle (Levin), 10 December 1948, Page 5

Argentina To Boost Dairy Production

' Rpceivod Tlmrsdav, 7 p.m. " LONbON, JDoc. 9. > ' The Argentirte, wliich fanked t'ouFth high'est ainoiig >>utter oxporling e'oiintrios in lUJd, is to spend ^,000,000 pesos "oh the promotion (jf its dairy industrv Jtiid artilieiftl insfiuination. The Argentlne Ministry oi' Agriculture has anfi'ounced that this ,u iil he earmarked as fbllows: — A quarter of a rnillion pesos f'or buying breeding stouk and improvifig dairy oaftle; 270,000 pesos 'for equipment atid technical apparatus, impleKients, instfuctional de.iiioustrations atid organisations; 1 00,000 pesos t'or jfree loans to dairy herd iniprovem&nt associations and artificial iiiseniinatioh asSociStioris;' 7Sf>t000 pesos for installatipns for demonstration fartns including dairy buildings and laboratdriesg p90,000 pesos for the purchiase .Of' .^ehieles for transport of staff. It is exiynrtted that a "proporfion of the eattlo equipment retpiired will be bought ipy Britain. / It is remarked -in London that the Afgentiiie has great polentialities for btitter prodnclion if a switch is made from beef. According to figures of the Coinnionwealth Econoniic. Committee, the Argentine's butter production rose from 009,000 cwt. in 1937 to 1,001,000 cwt. -in 1940. Her butter exports in 1937 .were 173,000 cwt., in. 1.940 T(?0, 000. cwt., which plaeed her fonrth to New Zealand (2,030.000 cwt.), Atisfrafia (1,341,000 cwt.), Denmark (1,520,000 ewt.).