DAIRY PRODUCE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 358, 20 October 1932, Page 2

DAIRY PRODUCE

CONTRIBUTES LARGEST SHARE I TO INCOME OF 1 FARMERS. I MILK MOS.T PROFITABLE. | A numher of striking comparisons, | showing the importance of dairy pro- 1 duce to the different countries of the 1 world, are given in a new Empire | Marketing Board pamphlet, "Dairy I Produce — a Summary of Figures of | Production and Trade. It is stated j that, taking the world as a whole, milk is a more important contributor than any other single product to the farmer's income, and that eggs probably rank before wheat and rice and immediately after milk. More milk is used for drinldng or | cooking than is made into butter, and | more is made into butter than into | cheese' or any other product. Empire I countries take second and third places 1

on the last of both butter and cheese | exporting countries, but make only a f poor showing in the export trade in eggs and preserved milk. In most countries eggs are mainly produced for home consumption, and it is pointed out that only Denmark, among all the 'exporting countries of the world, exports as much as half its total production of eggs. Tables are given showing the part played by butter, cheese and eggs in the external trade of the chief exporting countries. Butter represents nearly a third of Denmark's exports, and over a fifth of those of New Zealand. Cheese forms ahout 13 per cent. of New Zealand's exports. Exports of eggs and egg products take third place in the list of China's exports. The United Kingdom is easily the world's largest importer of each of the five products — butter, cheese, preserved milk, eggs and egg products — dealt with in the pamphlet, and the magnitude of this country's imports from foreign sources makes the Empire, taken as a unit, a net importer on a considerabie scale of each of the five products. The balance of the Empire's import trade amounts to hetween 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 cwt. of butter, from 300,000 to 500,000ewt. of cheese, ahout 3,000,000cwt of preserved milk, nearly 2,500,000,000 eggs, and approaching l,000,000cwt of liquid eggs.