INDIA NEEDS 6,000,000 TONS OF GRAIN
Received Monday, 7.40 p.m. LONDON, March 4. The Indian Government has given an i austerity lead in the food crisis by | ordering the famous Delhi lawns to be ! ploughed up and vegetables sown, siys j the Daily Mail's New Delhi cor ! respondent. Lord Wavell is ordering j the pioughing of part of the vice-rega. esta-tes. British troops from March 1C have been forbidden to send food pareels to Britain. Fvilure of the rains has increased the fear of famine. Three million tons oi wheat^ peas and barley were scorcheu on the northwestern plains durin... February. The Government Food Becretary Stated that India needs - 6,000, 0L tons more grain than the country is likely to produce. The full effect of the food shortage will not be felt until May, but distress ,s already in evidence in some districts.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 March 1946, Page 5
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