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The 50 million sheep of New Zealand outnumber its people 13 to 1, the highest such ratio in the world. ██ ███ ████ ██████████ █████ ██ ███ ██████ ███ ████ ███████ ██ ███ ███████ █████████ ████ ████ █ █████ ██ ████ █████████ █████ ██████ █████████ ███

Intro to Topic · New Zealand wool industry

Golden age in the 1950s.

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Problem · Decline in wool production and profitability

Details of Problem · Competition from synthetics

Downward pressure on prices of "strong wool."

Solution · Improve productivity to improve profitability

Productivity can be improved by adopting the best management and breeding practices.

Solution · Better farm management

Status Quo · Producers are divided

Professional farms achieve high profitability. Family farms do not. Hooking this back to the previous paragraph, presumably the idea is that the family farms can learn management practices from the professionals.

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Solution · Establish commercial genetic research company

Not to increase wool processing efficiency. Instead, to focus on producing better quality wool more cheaply.

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The author explicitly notes that the research would not concentrate on artificial manipulation of genetic material in sheep.

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There’s no indication the author wants the genetic research company to do research that could be applied to anything other than sheep.

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There’s no indication the author wants the company to research other wool varieties besides strong wool. The author wants to improve the quality of wool.

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This is the best supported answer. The author wants the company to crossbreed sheep for the purpose of improving the quality of sheep wool. As part of this process, the company probably would identify the traits of the superior sheep so that we can crossbreed in a way that maximizes the chance of producing sheep with those traits.

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The genetic research company wouldn’t have anything to do with more-efficient wool-processing. The author positions the company as a shift away from efforts to obtain more efficient wool-processing.

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