mate change and the review of response policy on natural disasters were undertaken. In the area of ​​biosecurity, development of a science strategy is under way and the government made efforts to improve early detection, effective eradication, and contingency planning. p align="justify">? Support to producers (% PSE) was 1% in 2004-06, down from 10% in 1986-88 and has been the lowest in the OECD since the agricultural reforms in the mid-1980s. p align="justify">? The share of payments based on input use decreased from 48% of the PSE in 1986-88 to 37% in 2004-06. Payments based on current factors accounted for 10% of the PSE in 2004-06. p align="justify">? Producer SCT by commodity was 32% for eggs, 9% for poultry and zero for all the other commodities. p align="justify">? The cost to consumers, as measured by the% CSE, was 2% in 2004-06 (7% in 1986-88). p align="justify">? Support for general services provided to agriculture as a share of total support increased between 1986-88 and 2004-06, from 21% to 60%. This support consists mainly of basic research, the control of pests and diseases, and flood control. p align="justify">? Total support to agriculture as a share of GDP is the lowest among the OECD countries at 0.3%, which is less than a quarter of the share in 1986-88. br/>
New Zealand: Commodity-Specificity of Support [2]
In New Zealand, Single Commodity Transfers (SCT) in 2006-08 made up 52% ​​of the PSE, an increase from 19% in 1986-88. Group Commodity Transfers (GCT), where producers have the option to produce any one of a specified group of commodities as part of programme eligibility, made up 22% of the PSE in 2006-08, compared to 68% in 1986-88. Transfers provided under the headings All Commodity Transfers (ACT) and Other Transfers to Producers (OTP) place no restriction on commodities that farmers choose to produce or do not require any commodity production at all.1 Together these made up 26% of the PSE in 2006-08, up from 13% in 1986-88. These changes have to be viewed against an overall reduction in the% PSE from 10% in 1986-88 to 1% by 2006-08. p align="justify"> Conclusion
In 1984, New Zealand introduced important policy reforms in order to address major macroeconomiic and fiscal imbalances. New Zealand s support to agricultural producers rapidly decreased from 30 percent of the value of production to about 2 percent, and has remained the lowest among OECD economies since that time.a difficult transition, the removal of subsidies resulted in a more diversified and competitive rural economy in New Zealand; total factor productivity growth has been roughly 2.5 percent annually since 1984, compared to roughly 1.5 percent in the prereform period.New Zealand experience strongly suggests that most of the supposed objectives of agricultural subsidies and market protections-to maintain the trad...
