Questioning Mr Wills

Bruce Wills, president of Federated Farmers has been outspoken lately on a number of issues. I'm drawn to take issue with him on many of the claims he has made and have a letter to the editor in the queue right now, asking about his supposed powers of clairvoyance and love for genetic engineering, but in the meantime, I'm thinking about a couple of things Bruce said recently:

“Yes biological emissions account for some 47 percent of New Zealand’s emissions profile. They also represent 68.1 percent of our merchandise exports and indeed, 100 percent of the food we eat. "

I've always thought that we import a percentage of the food we eat. Have I got this wrong, or is Bruce correct with his 100% claim?
I've not seen the local rice paddies, banana plantations and Brazilnut groves to which Bruce alludes.




“New Zealand is able to not only feed itself, but produces enough food to feed populations equivalent of Sri Lanka"

Do we feed ourselves with what we produce here? See above. And do we really only export enough food to feed the Sri Lankans? That's a mere blip (no offense intended, my Sri Lankan readers). I am regularly given the impression/ hear the claim that our farmers are 'feeding the world'?
Bruce is using a very broad brush here, to paint a glowing picture of farming in New Zealand.