Open AccessINCREASING PRODUCTION FROM NORTHLAND HILL COUNTRY
Author(s) -
A.Briscoe Moore
Publication year - 1953
Publication title -
proceedings of the new zealand grassland association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1179-4577
pISSN - 0369-3902
DOI - 10.33584/jnzg.1953.15.1010
Subject(s) - geography , fern , population , agricultural economics , cultivated land , land area , forestry , production (economics) , socioeconomics , archaeology , agroforestry , environmental protection , ecology , agricultural science , environmental science , agriculture , biology , demography , economics , macroeconomics , sociology
The subject of this paper is the large area of non-cultivable hill country now in production in the land area mostly north of Auckland City, the North Auckland Land District. It has been broken in, for the most part from standing bush, and to a less .extent scrub and fern, and carries the greater part of the sheep population of this area, which is approximately 1,400,OOO plus a high percentage of the beef cattle, some 230,000.