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Rural Sector: Agriculture to Agribusiness

Rural Sector: Agriculture to Agribusiness

Advice on legislation or legal policy issues contained in this paper is provided for use in parliamentary debate and for related parliamentary purposes. This paper is not professional legal opinion.
Briefing Paper No. 03/2003 by John Wilkinson
  • The agricultural sector is relatively small but contains certain well-performing areas (pp.1-12,23-24)
  • In recent years, there have been substantial changes in the organisation of the sector (pp.14-16,17,20)
  • Large-scale overseas companies are assuming a greater presence in Australian agriculture as the sector is transformed into agribusiness (pp.17-18)
  • Certain problems, occurring within this transition, remain to be resolved (pp.22-23)