FARMING, ARABLE - VEGETABLE INDUSTRY

Home-garden Production

According to the 1956 Census, 60 per cent of the 563,052 inhabited private dwellings had a garden. Some gardens provided the following proportionate vegetable needs (other than potatoes).

(New Zealand Official Year Book, 1964)

• FARMING, ARABLE - VEGETABLE INDUSTRY

• Areas of Production and Soil Types

• Vegetables for Processing

• Mechanisation

• Glasshouse Production

• Home-garden Production

• Disease Control

• Packaging

• Marketing

• Advisory and Scientific Services

• Organisation of the Vegetable Industry

Warning

This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

Up-to-date information can be found elsewhere in Te Ara.