Grazing Industry - Papua And New Guinea

Abstract

The extensive grasslands of Papua and New Guinea offer great scope for the development of a grazing industry. There are areas in both Territories which are eminently suited to sheep and cattle raising. Though there were about 27,000 head of cattle in the Territory before the war, there were few, if any, sheep. Cattle in the Territory now number about 5,000 head and sheep about 1,600 head. Although only a few ventures in cattle raising on a comparatively small scale have so far been undertaken in Papua and New Guinea there do not appear to be any insuperable obstacles to the expansion of the grazing industry.