AFFCO - CONTRIBUTING POSITIVELY TO NEW ZEALAND'S ECONOMY AND RESPONDING TO ITS ENVIRONMENT

摘要

Technology transfer is one of the buzz phrases of the 1990s, and it's interesting to reflect on the fact that it was the transfer of refrigeration technology into meat storage and transportation In the 1880s that began the industry that is still our major biomass producer, processor and export earner. The animal industries of New Zealand comprise 60 per cent of total foreign exchange earnings and 24 per cent of all employment and, despite the enormous demands put on it by political pressures over the past 25 years, the red meat industry is still the largest of the major industries producing biomass, with an annual turnover in excess of 4 billion dollar.