THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN NEW ZEALAND WHEAT GROWING.

Governmental influence is one of the cultural causal processes affecting the geography of agriculture. In New Zealand where agricultural socialism is well developed, there ate numerous examples of this influence in agriculture, such as the program designed to encourage wheat growing so as to lessen the dependence on overseas imports. A complex system of state control has developed which provides growers with attractive prices and yet, at the same time, protects consumers from inflated price for bread and flour, As a result of the comprehensive governmental control, wheat growing in New Zealand is frequently thought to be largely a response to state incentives. This hypothesis cannot be substantiated, Returns from competing systems of land utilization are influential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]