Future Production In P-Ng
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IT is noted in Australian Common wealth records that the Australian Agricultural Council, meeting in Canberra in April, 1952. “Considered that Papua and New Guinea could contribute significantly to export in come’’; and it set the following targets:
It was not apparent, from the lis of gentlemen who constructed th Council, that there was one mai present who knew anything ver much about the Territories. Th 1957-8 targets for cocoa and rubbe suggest that the gentlemen had no examined world markets lately. 1
Commodity Exports 1947-48 Copra tons 26,000
Cocoa .. .. ' ’
114 Rubber .. 7 Coffee
Exports Exports Aims fori 1949-50 1950-51 1957-58 ] tons tons tons 1 61,549 75,500 90,000 207 317 3,000 1,634 2,180 7,000 i 21 33 400