Vegetable Growing on Big Scale Begun in Manawatu
Press Assn.
Palmerston JM\, Aug. 21.
Directed by the Department of Agriculture, a big project to grow vegetables for the army is now under way at Opiki. No less an area than 120 acres is involved. Most of the growing of plants for setting out in .September is well advanced. As an indication of the magnitude of the scheme a computation shows that there will be no fewer than 21 miles of lettuces - growing in single rows at one time and on the same basis about 15 miles of carrots, nine miles of silver beet, 15 miles of spring onions and 25 miles of cabbages, this being for the first planting only of cabbages. No fewer than 10 acres of peas will be put in for the initial crop.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1942, Page 2
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137Vegetable Growing on Big Scale Begun in Manawatu Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1942, Page 2
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